Improving test-time search with backtrack- Ing Improving test-time search with backtrack- Ing against in-context value verifiersagainst in-context value verifiers
Mar 13, 2025•4 min
Episode description
- Test-time verifiers improve reasoning performance by guiding solution chains
- Inefficient searches can arise from overlapping solutions and incorrect completions
- The paper proposes combining process verifiers with preemptive backtracking
- This approach reduces computation by leveraging partial reasoning traces
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