Self-consistency is a prompting strategy where you generate multiple responses to the same question using chain-of-thought reasoning, then select the most common answer among them. By sampling diverse reasoning paths and taking a majority vote, self-consistency reduces errors from any single flawed reasoning chain and produces more reliable answers.
You ask the model the same math word problem 5 times with slight temperature variation. Three responses arrive at $42, one says $38, and one says $45. You take the majority answer ($42) as the most likely correct result.
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