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Making, not Taking, the Best of N research paper by Cohere, 2025

Cohere · Oct 1, 2025 · Foundation models · 11 upvotes 12 months ago

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What it shows

Fusion-of-N (FusioN) method improves LLM generation quality by synthesizing elements from multiple samples, outperforming Best-of-N in various settings and tasks.

Hugging Face's summary; not yet checked by hand.

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Ammar Khairi, Daniel D'souza, Marzieh Fadaee and 1 more
arXiv
2510.00931 · PDF
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