Pause and Reflect: Conformal Aggregation for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

ArXi:2605.14098v1 Announce Type: cross Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning with self-consistency improves performance by aggregating multiple sampled reasoning paths. In this setting, correctness is no longer tied to a single reasoning trace but to the aggregation rule over a pool of candidate paths, making aggregation uncertainty the central challenge. This issue is critical where confidently incorrect answers are far costly than abstentions. We