Technique · reasoning
Self-Consistency
Sample multiple CoT completions and take the majority-vote answer, substantially improving reasoning accuracy.
Deployment timeline
- GPT-4omedium
Deployed 2026-02-16 · Velocity 4y
“System Card mentions sampling multiple outputs for evaluation, a core self-consistency technique.”
- GPT-5medium
Deployed 2026-02-16 · Velocity 4y
“GPT-5 can generate multiple reasoning paths, and majority voting improves answer reliability.”
- Claude 3high
Deployed 2026-02-18 · Velocity 4y
“Claude 3 can generate multiple reasoning paths and select the best answer, demonstrating self-consistency.”
- GPT-5.3medium
Deployed 2026-02-26 · Velocity 4y
“GPT-5.3's advanced reasoning capabilities suggest use of sampling-based verification like self-consistency.”
- Claude 4.5medium
Deployed 2026-02-26 · Velocity 4y
“Claude 4.5 shows improved accuracy on complex reasoning tasks through refined reasoning processes.”
- DeepSeek-R1high
Deployed 2026-03-17 · Velocity 4y
“Uses majority voting over multiple reasoning paths to improve answer accuracy.”
- Claude 3.5 Opusmedium
Deployed 2026-03-18 · Velocity 4y
“Anthropic mentions using 'majority voting' for reasoning tasks in Claude 3.5 Opus.”
- GLM-5.1medium
Deployed 2026-03-21 · Velocity 4y
“GLM-5.1 can use self-consistency by sampling multiple reasoning paths.”
- Qwen 3.6medium
Deployed 2026-03-31 · Velocity 4y
“Qwen 3.6 demonstrates improved reasoning, which can be enhanced with self-consistency.”
- GPT-5.4-Cyberhigh
Deployed 2026-04-16 · Velocity 4y
“GPT-4 can be used with self-consistency by sampling multiple reasoning paths.”
- GPT-Rosalindhigh
Deployed 2026-04-16 · Velocity 4y
“GPT-Rosalind uses self-consistency by sampling multiple reasoning paths and selecting the majority answer.”