Inference
Inference-time search
2022ActiveUpdated: 22 September 2026Published
Key
innovation
Trading extra inference-time compute for better answer quality.
Category
Inference
Abstraction level
Pattern
Operation level
Inference
Use cases
Reasoning modelsMath/code problem solvingTest-time compute scaling
How it works
The model generates many candidates/branches that are scored and selected (reranking, voting, tree search).
Problem solved
A single, greedy generation often misses the best answer, especially in reasoning.