1/ Stop hand-crafting test-time scaling heuristics. A new paper shows an AI agent can discover an inference algor…

1/ Stop hand-crafting test-time scaling heuristics. A new paper shows an AI agent can discover an inference algorithm that beats Self-Consistency, cuts token costs by 70%, and the total search compute cost was under $40.
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