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arxiv: 2408.00724 · v3 · submitted 2024-08-01 · 💻 cs.AI

Inference Scaling Laws: An Empirical Analysis of Compute-Optimal Inference for Problem-Solving with Language Models

Yangzhen Wu , Zhiqing Sun , Shanda Li , Sean Welleck , Yiming Yang This is my paper

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keywords inference scaling lawscompute-optimal inferencetest-time computetree searchlanguage modelsMATH benchmarkmodel size trade-offs
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Scaling inference compute with advanced strategies can outperform scaling model size for language models on math problems.

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The paper examines trade-offs between using larger language models and spending more compute on inference strategies such as voting or tree search. It measures performance on the MATH benchmark while tracking total compute cost across model sizes from 7B to 34B parameters. The central result is that for the same compute budget, pairing a smaller model with a sophisticated inference algorithm often yields higher accuracy than a larger model using simpler decoding. This holds because generating additional tokens through search can resolve errors that extra parameters alone do not fix. If the pattern is general, it means future performance gains may come more from inference design than from ever-larger training runs.

Core claim

Scaling inference compute with inference strategies can be more computationally efficient than scaling model parameters. Smaller models combined with advanced inference algorithms offer Pareto-optimal trade-offs in cost and performance. For example, the Llemma-7B model, when paired with our novel tree search algorithm, consistently outperforms the Llemma-34B model across all tested inference strategies on the MATH benchmark.

What carries the argument

Empirical cost-performance curves comparing inference strategies (greedy search, majority voting, best-of-n, weighted voting, and two tree search algorithms) across model sizes and total token budgets on the MATH benchmark.

If this is right

  • For a fixed compute budget, allocating more operations to inference steps on a smaller model produces higher accuracy than using those operations to run a larger model.
  • Tree search algorithms create better cost-performance frontiers than voting or greedy methods across the tested range.
  • There exist model-plus-strategy pairs that dominate others in the accuracy-versus-compute plane on MATH.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Model developers might gain more by designing architectures that support efficient long-horizon search than by maximizing parameter count alone.
  • The same inference-scaling pattern could appear on other reasoning benchmarks if the underlying error-correction mechanism is not MATH-specific.
  • Hardware systems optimized for variable-length tree search rather than fixed batch inference could unlock further efficiency.

Load-bearing premise

The measured cost and accuracy differences arise mainly from model size and inference strategy rather than from unmeasured details of prompts, formatting, or benchmark artifacts.

What would settle it

Re-running the same model sizes and strategies on MATH while equalizing total floating-point operations shows the 34B model with basic inference matching or exceeding the 7B model with tree search.

read the original abstract

While the scaling laws of large language models (LLMs) training have been extensively studied, optimal inference configurations of LLMs remain underexplored. We study inference scaling laws (aka test-time scaling laws) and compute-optimal inference, focusing on the trade-offs between model sizes and generating additional tokens with different inference strategies. As a first step towards understanding and designing compute-optimal inference methods, we studied cost-performance trade-offs for inference strategies such as greedy search, majority voting, best-of-$n$, weighted voting, and two different tree search algorithms, using different model sizes and compute budgets. Our findings suggest that scaling inference compute with inference strategies can be more computationally efficient than scaling model parameters. Additionally, smaller models combined with advanced inference algorithms offer Pareto-optimal trade-offs in cost and performance. For example, the Llemma-7B model, when paired with our novel tree search algorithm, consistently outperforms the Llemma-34B model across all tested inference strategies on the MATH benchmark. We hope these insights contribute to a deeper understanding of inference scaling laws (test-time scaling laws) for LLMs.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper empirically studies inference scaling laws for LLMs on mathematical problem-solving, comparing inference strategies (greedy search, majority voting, best-of-n, weighted voting, and two tree search algorithms) across model sizes and compute budgets on the MATH benchmark. It claims that scaling inference compute via advanced strategies is more efficient than scaling model parameters, with smaller models like Llemma-7B plus a novel tree search algorithm offering Pareto-superior cost-performance trade-offs over larger models like Llemma-34B.

Significance. If the empirical comparisons hold under fair compute accounting, the results would indicate that inference-time optimization can substitute for larger model sizes in some settings, providing practical guidance for efficient LLM deployment and highlighting the value of test-time scaling laws as a complement to training scaling laws.

major comments (2)
  1. The central claim that Llemma-7B with the novel tree search outperforms Llemma-34B (and offers better efficiency) depends on equivalent total compute across conditions. Tree search requires multiple forward passes, branching, and backtracking; if cost is measured only in tokens or wall-clock time without explicit FLOPs or model-call normalization that holds the budget constant, the reported Pareto dominance may be an artifact of unequal effective compute rather than strategy superiority.
  2. The abstract and reported comparisons do not specify an explicit FLOPs or model-call budget held constant across model sizes and strategies. Without this, it is unclear whether the measured performance differences arise from inference strategy efficiency or from unaccounted differences in total computation.
minor comments (2)
  1. Add details on statistical controls, variance across runs, and exact compute accounting (including how tree search calls are tallied) to strengthen the support for the efficiency claims.
  2. Clarify the precise definition and implementation of the novel tree search algorithm, including any hyperparameters that affect compute usage.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed feedback emphasizing the need for transparent and equivalent compute accounting across model sizes and inference strategies. We agree that this is critical for interpreting the efficiency claims. Below we respond to each major comment and outline the revisions we will make to strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: The central claim that Llemma-7B with the novel tree search outperforms Llemma-34B (and offers better efficiency) depends on equivalent total compute across conditions. Tree search requires multiple forward passes, branching, and backtracking; if cost is measured only in tokens or wall-clock time without explicit FLOPs or model-call normalization that holds the budget constant, the reported Pareto dominance may be an artifact of unequal effective compute rather than strategy superiority.

    Authors: We agree that fair and explicit compute normalization is necessary to support the efficiency comparisons. In the experiments, we held the inference compute budget constant by fixing the total number of tokens generated (or equivalently the number of model forward passes) for each strategy under each budget level, with tree search explicitly counting all tokens from branching and backtracking. Because the primary comparisons for Pareto dominance are performed within the same model size before contrasting across sizes, the token-based budget provides a consistent measure. That said, we acknowledge that an explicit statement of this normalization (including its relation to FLOPs) would remove any ambiguity. We will add a dedicated paragraph in the methods section and update the figure captions to detail the exact model-call counting procedure. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The abstract and reported comparisons do not specify an explicit FLOPs or model-call budget held constant across model sizes and strategies. Without this, it is unclear whether the measured performance differences arise from inference strategy efficiency or from unaccounted differences in total computation.

    Authors: The manuscript states that experiments were conducted across different model sizes and compute budgets, but we accept that neither the abstract nor the main text currently provides an explicit definition of the budget in FLOPs or normalized model calls. We will revise the abstract to include a concise statement that all comparisons are performed under matched total inference compute (measured in tokens generated / model calls) and add a short subsection describing the normalization, confirming that tree-search costs are fully included and that cross-model comparisons respect the differing per-token FLOPs of each model size. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Purely empirical study with no derivation chain or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper conducts an empirical comparison of inference strategies (greedy search, majority voting, best-of-n, weighted voting, and tree search) across model sizes and compute budgets on the MATH benchmark. No mathematical derivations, first-principles predictions, or equations are presented that could reduce to fitted inputs or self-citations. Claims rest on observed performance and measured costs rather than any self-definitional or load-bearing self-referential steps. The analysis is self-contained against external benchmarks and does not invoke uniqueness theorems or ansatzes from prior author work.

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This is an empirical benchmarking study with no theoretical free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; all claims rest on observed performance numbers from standard models and a public benchmark.

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