@article{breakingthepresamplingbarrieractivationi, title = {Breaking the Pre-Sampling Barrier: Activation-Informed Difficulty-Aware Self-Consistency}, author = {Taewoong Yoon and Geunyeong Jeong and Geon Park and Sihyeong Yeom and Harksoo Kim}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.09438}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09438}, }