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How does test-time aggregation affect reasoning correctness and reliability?
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- Why does majority voting reward work better than other test-time aggregation methods?
- How does training-time voting differ from inference-time majority voting over samples?
- How does majority voting fail when reasoning samples lack genuine diversity?
- Does majority voting reliably signal correctness without risking reward hacking?
- When does multi-agent voting help versus hurt performance on tasks?
- Can test-time voting improve reasoning beyond the base model's original capabilities?
- Can voting work at every level of task decomposition, not just whole problems?
- Does majority voting prevent confident but incorrect answers from being reinforced?
- What happens when majority voting converges to a single answer?
- What makes consensus games work without retraining the base model?
- How do correlated errors across agents threaten voting-based error correction systems?
- What intermediate information does majority voting discard from reasoning chains?
- Why do majority-vote rewards amplify errors below an accuracy threshold?
- Why do self-consistency methods fail where pretraining bias is strongest?
- Why does low temperature sampling extract consensus from diverse training data?
- What signals detect when consensus training is silently degrading performance?
- Which prompt properties determine whether variance helps under majority voting?
- When do aggregated imperfect demonstrations fail to outperform the best expert?