https://fateyetian.github.io/tags/reasoning/ Recent content in Reasoning on Voyager's Log Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://fateyetian.github.io/posts/2025-05-01-thinking/ Thu, 01 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://fateyetian.github.io/posts/2025-05-01-thinking/ <p><span class="update">Special thanks to <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=itSa94cAAAAJ&amp;hl=en">John Schulman</a> for a lot of super valuable feedback and direct edits on this post.</span></p> <p>Test time compute (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.08983">Graves et al. 2016</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.04146">Ling, et al. 2017</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.14168">Cobbe et al. 2021</a>) and Chain-of-thought (CoT) (<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.11903">Wei et al. 2022</a>, <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.00114">Nye et al. 2021</a>), have led to significant improvements in model performance, while raising many research questions. This post aims to review recent developments in how to effectively use test-time compute (i.e. &ldquo;thinking time&rdquo;) and why it helps.</p>