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When More Sampling Hurts: The Modal Ceiling and Correlation Ceiling of Test-Time Scaling

arXiv cs.LG · 2026-06-30 Cached

This paper identifies the 'modal ceiling' and 'correlation ceiling' in test-time scaling for reasoning models, showing that beyond a few dozen samples, additional sampling does not improve selection accuracy and can even harm it, highlighting the identifiability gap between generating and recognizing correct answers.

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