ttc is an incredibly broad term and it is broadening as the hype spreads. people are now calling CoT “TTC” because they are spending compute on reasoning tokens before answering
Yes, and HuggingFace have published this outlining some of the potential ways to use TTC, including but not limited to tree search, showing TTC performance gains from LLama.
https://huggingface.co/spaces/HuggingFaceH4/blogpost-scaling...