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Are More Tokens Rational? Inference-Time Scaling in Language Models as Adaptive Resource Rationality

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Main Authors:	Hu, Zhimin, Roshan, Riya, Varma, Sashank
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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