Not All Errors Are Equal: Consequence-Aware Reasoning Compute Allocation
Test-time compute has emerged as an effective paradigm for improving large language model capability at inference time. Existing allocation strategies primarily prioritize tasks according to difficulty, uncertainty, or expected performance gain, implicitly treating prediction errors as equally costly. This assumption is often misaligned with real deployment, where failures can differ substantially in their downstream tasks. To address this limitation, this paper introduces consequence-aware test-time compute allocation by formulating a cost-weighted scheduling problem where the priority of a task is its failure consequence with the marginal gain of additional compute. In practice, however...
| Authors | Liang He, Jingbo Wen, Haoyu Wang et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.AI |
| Published | 3 June 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 1 October 2026 |
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