The Shelf · Signal Library
No. 191

Turn-level best-of-N sampling scales LLM agents, turn by turn

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at each turn a generator model proposes N candidate actions and a selector model picks one to execute. On long-horizon terminal tasks this gave 5–10% accuracy improvements and more consistent repeated attempts, with trajectories shifting toward fewer attempts, better instruction following, and more debugging and testing — using off-the-shelf open-weight models as the selectors.

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