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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2025
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Sirui Bi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Wendi Cui, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Wei Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Runhua Zhao, Milpitas, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes transmitting a prompt to a large language model (LLM). The prompt includes an instruction to generate a first reasoning block. The method further includes computing a first token-level confidence score for the first reasoning block. The method further includes generating, by the LLM, a second reasoning block responsive to the first token-level confidence score failing to satisfy a pruning threshold. The method further includes computing a second token-level confidence score for the second reasoning block. Responsive to the second token-level confidence score satisfying the pruning threshold, the second reasoning block is added to a reasoning trace. The method further includes generating a provisional answer from the reasoning trace, responsive to the second token-level confidence score satisfying a block confidence threshold.