Latent Self-Consistency for Reliable Majority-Set Selection in Short- and Long-Answer Reasoning

Researchers introduce Latent Self-Consistency (LSC), a new method for improving Large Language Model output reliability across both short and long-form reasoning tasks. LSC uses learnable token embeddings to select semantically consistent responses with only 0.9% computational overhead, outperforming existing consistency methods like Self-Consistency and Universal Self-Consistency.