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  2. Best-of-N

Glossary

Best-of-N

Generating N answers and keeping the one a checker or reward model scores highest. It spends more inference compute for a better pick.

Where it is explained

  • Reasoning models and structured outputsPrompting and structured output

See also

Terms explained in the same lessons.

  • Constrained decoding
  • JSON mode
  • Reasoning model
  • Reasoning tokens
  • Refusal
  • Structured output
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