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pith:2025:DT7KGEF35RI56XRN43RYREYUPX

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

Adam Block, Akshay Krishnamurthy, Audrey Huang, Dylan J. Foster, Nan Jiang, Qinghua Liu

arxiv:2503.21878 v2 · 2025-03-27 · cs.AI · cs.LG · stat.ML

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First computed	2026-07-05T10:45:39.218272Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
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Canonical hash

1cfea310bbec51df5e2de6e38893147dd14d63f15caef77f1ac67acd177a0317

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arxiv: 2503.21878 · arxiv_version: 2503.21878v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.21878 · pith_short_12: DT7KGEF35RI5 · pith_short_16: DT7KGEF35RI56XRN · pith_short_8: DT7KGEF3

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DT7KGEF35RI56XRN43RYREYUPX \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 1cfea310bbec51df5e2de6e38893147dd14d63f15caef77f1ac67acd177a0317

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    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-03-27T18:00:08Z",
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