Thinking Costs Tokens: When More Structure is Worth the Price
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arXiv:2608.27506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adding inference structure to a language model lets it search, verify, and revise, but these actions consume the very budget they are supposed to use well. In this paper, we investigate whether there exists a token-budget threshold, below which the ov…
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Thinking Costs Tokens: When More Structure is Worth the Price