Community debates why token budgets poorly model reasoning limits
Community discussion argues token budgets poorly model reasoning limits since models lack a sense of remaining budget, and explores alternatives like Entropix-style active steering, summarization-based compression, and training on truncated reasoning chains.
2026-08-23 ~ 2026-08-23 · 3 related posts
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