Iterative Deepening Sampling as Efficient Test-Time Scaling

Weizhe Chen, Sven Koenig, Bistra Dilkina
2/8/2025
cs.CLcs.AIcs.LG

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Recent reasoning models, such as OpenAI's O1 series, have demonstrated exceptional performance on complex reasoning tasks and revealed new test-time scaling laws. Inspired by this, many people have been studying how to train models to achieve effective self-evaluation and self-correction to further enable the scaling paradigm. However, less studied is how to efficiently scale test-time compute from a fixed model, and this remains a challenge. In this paper, we address this challenge by focusing on enhancing the quality of self-reflection data generation for complex problem-solving at test time, which can also subsequently improve the training of next-generation large language models (LLMs). Specifically, we explore how systematically triggering a model's self-correction mechanisms can improve performance on challenging reasoning tasks. To this end, we propose a novel iterative deepening sampling algorithm framework designed to enhance self-correction and generate higher-quality samples. Through extensive experiments on Math500 and AIME benchmarks, we demonstrate that our method achieves a higher success rate on difficult tasks and provide detailed ablation studies to analyze its effectiveness across diverse settings.

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@article{chen2025iterative,
  title  = {Iterative Deepening Sampling as Efficient Test-Time Scaling},
  author = {Weizhe Chen and Sven Koenig and Bistra Dilkina},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2502.05449},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05449v2}
}

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