arXiv:2606. 06178v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) present a trade-off between performance and cost, where more powerful models incur greater expense.
By Jiahao Zeng, Ming Tang, Ningning Ding
arXiv:2606. 07587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM routing has become a popular approach to improve the cost-quality trade-off of LLM services by dynamically selecting a model for each query.
By Yifan Lu, Qiyue Zhang, Shenrun Zhang, Zhibo Yu, Zhuang Wang, Hanjie Chen, Jiarong Xing
arXiv:2607. 11399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents are increasingly executed not by a single model call, but by an execution harness that manages observation, context, control, action, state, and verification.
By Xinchen Liu, Hang Zhou, Yingjie Zong, Yuchuan Tian, Liuyang Song, Shuo Zhang, Yulong Li, Wei He, Mengyu Zheng, Runke Liu, Siyang Cheng, Xiang Kuang, Hailin Hu, Kai Han, Yunhe Wang
arXiv:2606. 22902v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world users typically have access to multiple Large Language Models (LLMs) from different providers, and these LLMs often excel at distinct domains, yet none dominate all.
By Pengfei Zhou, Zhiwei Tang, Yixing Ma, Jiasheng Tang, Yizeng Han, Zhenglin Wan, Fanqing Meng, Wei Wang, Bohan Zhuang, Wangbo Zhao, Yang You
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:2605. 17106v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Production LLM deployments increasingly maintain heterogeneous model pools spanning order-of-magnitude cost differences.
By Aashna Garg, Siddharth Singha Roy, Jinu Jang, Federico Brancasi, Shengyu Fu
arXiv:2511. 09373v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLMs now tackle a wide range of software-related tasks, yet we show that their performance varies markedly both across and within these tasks.
By Adam \v{S}torek, Vikas Upadhyay, Marianne Menglin Liu, Daniel W. Peterson, Anshul Mittal, Sujeeth Bharadwaj, Fahad Shah, Sujith Ravi, Dan Roth
Recommender systems increasingly face a choice among heterogeneous agents -- collaborative filters, sequential models, content-based retrievers, and LLM-based rerankers -- yet no single agent is uniformly best. We study this choice as task-aware agent ranking under cost constraints using RouteRec, a framework that compares request-level hard selection with item-level learned aggregation over four traditional recommender agents and one LLM reranker agent.
arXiv:2606. 28925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool and agent routing from natural-language prompts is naturally a set-valued prediction problem: a single query may require multiple agents, while over-selection increases execution cost.
By Ananto Nayan Bala, Faisal Muhammad Shah
arXiv:2608. 14641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic systems increasingly delegate model selection to a router, yet open-source routers are usually evaluated with different tasks, candidate pools, and execution protocols, limiting direct comparison.
By Kiran N. Kumar, Santhosh K. Saminathan
arXiv:2606. 02581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) faces a fundamental three-way tension: deeper retrieval improves factual grounding but inflates token costs and end-to-end latency.
By Sanjay Mishra
arXiv:2602. 22638v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Route-planning agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for supporting everyday human mobility through natural language interaction and tool-mediated decision making.
By Zhiheng Song, Jingshuai Zhang, Chuan Qin, Chao Wang, Chao Chen, Longfei Xu, Kaikui Liu, Xiangxiang Chu, Hengshu Zhu