Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

As of 9 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 16 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2503.21878.

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RewardAnything: Generalizable Principle-Following Reward Models cites this paper.

RewardAnything: Generalizable Principle-Following Reward Models Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 41

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Revisiting Test-Time Scaling: A Survey and a Diversity-Aware Method for Efficient Reasoning cites this paper.

Revisiting Test-Time Scaling: A Survey and a Diversity-Aware Method for Efficient Reasoning Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 33

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Energy-Based Transformers are Scalable Learners and Thinkers cites this paper.

Energy-Based Transformers are Scalable Learners and Thinkers Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 124

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Best-of-N through the Smoothing Lens: KL Divergence and Regret Analysis cites this paper.

Best-of-N through the Smoothing Lens: KL Divergence and Regret Analysis Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 26

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Certifiable Safe RLHF: Semantic Grounding and Fixed Penalty Constraint Optimization for Safer LLM Alignment cites this paper.

Certifiable Safe RLHF: Semantic Grounding and Fixed Penalty Constraint Optimization for Safer LLM Alignment Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 21

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Observation e1f1d9af-ee3b-4ba9-8fc0-b67dd614abff · inbound

Test-time reward-guided alignment of language models by importance sampling on pre-logit space cites this paper.

Test-time reward-guided alignment of language models by importance sampling on pre-logit space Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

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Ensemble-Based Uncertainty Estimation for Code Correctness Estimation cites this paper.

Ensemble-Based Uncertainty Estimation for Code Correctness Estimation Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 14

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Sampling for Quality: Training-Free Reward-Guided LLM Decoding via Sequential Monte Carlo cites this paper.

Sampling for Quality: Training-Free Reward-Guided LLM Decoding via Sequential Monte Carlo Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

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Fast Rates for Offline Contextual Bandits with Forward-KL Regularization under Single-Policy Concentrability cites this paper.

Fast Rates for Offline Contextual Bandits with Forward-KL Regularization under Single-Policy Concentrability Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 33

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What Am I Missing? Question-Answering as Hidden State Probing cites this paper.

What Am I Missing? Question-Answering as Hidden State Probing Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 9

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On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning cites this paper.

On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 14

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ATLAS: Agentic Test-time Learning-to-Allocate Scaling cites this paper.

ATLAS: Agentic Test-time Learning-to-Allocate Scaling Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 18

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Small RL Controller, Large Language Model: RL-Guided Adaptive Sampling for Test-Time Scaling cites this paper.

Small RL Controller, Large Language Model: RL-Guided Adaptive Sampling for Test-Time Scaling Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 123

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An Asymptotic Theory of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning cites this paper.

An Asymptotic Theory of Chain-of-Thought in In-Context Learning Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 19

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VGB for Masked Diffusion Model: Efficient Test-time Scaling for Reward Satisfaction and Sample Editing cites this paper.

VGB for Masked Diffusion Model: Efficient Test-time Scaling for Reward Satisfaction and Sample Editing Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

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Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training cites this paper.

Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training Is Best-of-N the Best of Them? Coverage, Scaling, and Optimality in Inference-Time Alignment

Reference 31

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