arXiv:2608. 13315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a large language model (LLM) service in which a provider chooses a per-token price and a default reasoning-token allocation, while a user may accept the default, customize the allocation, or exit.
By Ahmet Bugra Gundogan, Yigit Turkmen, Melih Bastopcu
arXiv:2606. 03092v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inference-time scaling has emerged as a critical avenue for enhancing Large Language Models' performance, yet real-world deployment is constrained by strict computational budgets.
By Xu Wan, Speed Zhu, Jianwei Cai, Guang Chen, XiMing Huang, Wiggin Zhou, Mingyang Sun
arXiv:2609.28322v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Benchmarking and routing platforms increasingly act as intermediaries connecting large language model providers with end-users. However, providers on t...
By Dimitrios Rontogiannis, Ander Artola Velasco, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
arXiv:2511. 00847v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) through Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) induces a critical vulnerability: the potential for dishonest manipulation by service providers.
By Yuhan Cao, Yu Wang, Sitong Liu, Miao Li, Yixin Tao, Tianxing He
arXiv:2607. 09600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language model (LLM) agents requires effective orchestration of diverse expert models and tools.
By Kaiji Zhou, Ales Leonardis, Yue Feng
arXiv:2608. 07968v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning language models increasingly use test-time compute to improve performance, but existing evaluations typically study this compute one question at a time.
By Chenrui Fan, Yize Cheng, Ming Li, Yongyuan Liang, Tianyi Zhou, Soheil Feizi
arXiv:2609.00710v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: An LLM application often sells or internally allocates several service products: a small or premium model, a short or long token cap, and possibly mu...
By Patrick Wong
arXiv:2512. 22749v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the pricing behavior of third-party platforms facing strategic agents.
By Rui Ai, David Simchi-Levi, Feng Zhu
The paper proposes an inference auction for large language model (LLM) APIs, enabling users to bid for faster service when compute demand exceeds capacity. The auction allocates priority efficiently without increasing latency, and includes fast algorithms for truthful bidding and an autobidding agent that adjusts bids within a user’s budget to maximize utility. Experiments show the auction improves system welfare while preserving the cache utilization and latency benefits of the SGLang inference framework.
By Keegan Harris, Siddharth Prasad, Asher Trockman, Nika Haghtalab, Michael I. Jordan
arXiv:2604. 05164v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As LLM reasoning performance plateaus, improving inference-time compute efficiency is crucial to mitigate overthinking and long thinking traces even for simple queries.
By Neharika Jali, Anupam Nayak, Gauri Joshi
arXiv:2606. 19376v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inference costs for large language model (LLM) applications are rapidly growing, driven by surging demand and rising infrastructure cost.
By Herbert Woisetschl\"ager, Arastun Mammadli, Ryan Zhang, Shiqiang Wang
arXiv:2608. 13571v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a language model fails to answer a query on the first attempt, an agentic system retries, consuming additional tokens each time.
By Heming Fu, Shan Lin, Qianqian Xie, Guojun Xiong