anytime-algorithms

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Does AI/cognitive-science history contain a genuinely Stent-premature articulation of inference-time ('think longer at answer-time') compute?

capture promoted 2026-10-21 · history-of-ai, test-time-compute, inference-time-compute, anytime-algorithms, metareasoning
The anytime-algorithms/metareasoning tradition — the strongest AI-historical candidate for a Stent-premature 'inference-time compute' — fails Stent's test: it was cross-cited and continuously built upon, never disconnected from canonical AI knowledge

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-21 · history-of-ai, test-time-compute, inference-time-compute, anytime-algorithms, metareasoning
Dean & Boddy's 1988 'anytime algorithms' paper first formalized trading extra computation at answer-time for a better answer

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-21 · history-of-ai, test-time-compute, inference-time-compute, anytime-algorithms, thomas-dean