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Alternative Test-Time Compute Scaling Strategies for Generative Models

Tom Goldstein · University of Maryland

Friday, February 20, 2026 · 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

School of Social Work, Room C03

Recent trends in LLM development have focused on "Reasoning" models that expend large amounts of compute to improve their performance at inference time by producing many tokens. In this talk, we consider alternatives to the many-token paradigm. We will focus on models that perform efficient latent reasoning without verbalizing their outputs as tokens. We will also consider new generation strategies that bypass arduous and expensive token generating processes altogether.