% Key papers for Test-time compute scaling (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages.

@inproceedings{neurips2023_inference_68639,
  title = {{Inference-Time Intervention: Eliciting Truthful Answers from a Language Model}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2023/poster/71200},
}

@inproceedings{aaai2024_consistentee_5476,
  title = {{ConsistentEE: A Consistent and Hardness-Guided Early Exiting Method for Accelerating Language Models Inference}},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29922},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2024_observational_71961,
  title = {{Observational Scaling Laws and the Predictability of Langauge Model Performance}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/95350},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_mind_83375,
  title = {{Mind the Gap: Examining the Self-Improvement Capabilities of Large Language Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/28441},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_the_77507,
  title = {{The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Entropy Minimization in LLM Reasoning}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=UfFTBEsLgI},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2024_think_35302,
  title = {{Think before you speak: Training Language Models With Pause Tokens}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17771},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_noise_75917,
  title = {{Noise Hypernetworks: Amortizing Test-Time Compute in Diffusion Models}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=DbzREoPwmM},
}

@inproceedings{icml2025_stair_47791,
  title = {{STAIR: Improving Safety Alignment with Introspective Reasoning}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2025/poster/44809},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2021_to_62980,
  title = {{To Beam Or Not To Beam: That is a Question of Cooperation for Language GANs}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2021},
  url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/28576},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_agenttts_75777,
  title = {{AgentTTS: Large Language Model Agent for Test-time Compute-optimal Scaling Strategy in Complex Tasks}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=BuYtcTUMyA},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_a_75954,
  title = {{A Theoretical Study on Bridging Internal Probability and Self-Consistency for LLM Reasoning}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=E0PaeSszLz},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_provable_76157,
  title = {{Provable Scaling Laws for the Test-Time Compute of Large Language Models}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=GBMzJLhsRj},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_the_77561,
  title = {{The Overthinker's DIET: Cutting Token Calories with DIfficulty-AwarE Training}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=VCj7knCJhn},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_disc_78804,
  title = {{DISC: Dynamic Decomposition Improves LLM Inference Scaling}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=iY1zuKydO0},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_wider_78869,
  title = {{Wider or Deeper? Scaling LLM Inference-Time Compute with Adaptive Branching Tree Search}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=jAsr5GHt3P},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_solverllm_79160,
  title = {{SolverLLM: Leveraging Test-Time Scaling for Optimization Problem via LLM-Guided Search}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=mN3CMpfWR6},
}

@inproceedings{neurips2025_rollout_79538,
  title = {{Rollout Roulette: A Probabilistic Inference Approach to Inference-Time Scaling of LLMs using Particle-Based Monte Carlo Methods}},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=qPQUrjiA0q},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2025_smaller_80687,
  title = {{Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2025/poster/31080},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2026_the_84538,
  title = {{The Illusion of Diminishing Returns: Measuring Long Horizon Execution in LLMs}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=3lm8lWYxiq},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2026_revolutionizing_85961,
  title = {{Revolutionizing Reinforcement Learning Framework for Diffusion Large Language Models}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=KNAyc9DMe3},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2026_grace_87992,
  title = {{GRACE: Generative Representation Learning via Contrastive Policy Optimization}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=hs9lwjH1bJ},
}

@inproceedings{iclr2026_the_88104,
  title = {{The Limits of Inference Scaling Through Resampling}},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=j8H84v6AZ1},
}