@article{whenindependentsamplingoutperformsagenti,
  title = {When Independent Sampling Outperforms Agentic Reasoning},
  author = {Yihe Dong and Boris Shigida},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2605.08478},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08478},
}