Think Hard Only When Needed: A Hybrid Best-of-N and Beam Search for Efficient Test-Time Compute

Published in The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2026

Hyewon Suh, Chaojian Li, Cheng-Jhih Shih, Zheng Wang, Kejing Xia, Yonggan Fu, and Yingyan Celine Lin. (2026). "Think Hard Only When Needed: A Hybrid Best-of-N and Beam Search for Efficient Test-Time Compute." The 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL).