Intelligence Under Time Constraints: Rethinking Test-Time Compute

arXiv:2609.14995 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-15

Comments: Position paper. 10 pages, 1 figure, 3 tables

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Trace — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Causal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Regret — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Resource Constraints — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Scaling Laws — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Self-consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Test-time Scaling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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