Relax upper bound for num_candidates validation

Changed num_candidates validation to only enforce a minimum of 2, removing the previous maximum limit of 16. This allows for generating more than 16 candidates if desired.

Author: codelion

optillm/plugins/genselect_plugin.py

@@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ def run(
     include_reasoning = config.get('include_reasoning', DEFAULT_INCLUDE_REASONING)
     max_tokens = config.get('max_tokens', 4096)
 
-    # Validate num_candidates is in reasonable range (2-16 as per paper)
-    num_candidates = max(2, min(16, num_candidates))
+    # Validate num_candidates is at least 2
+    num_candidates = max(2, num_candidates)
 
     logger.info(f"Generating {num_candidates} candidates with temperature={temperature}")