Coding agents increasingly operate in executable environments where a failed attempt produces actionable feedback rather than merely an incorrect answer. Existing cost-aware systems typically treat such failures as cascade decisions: try a cheap model first, then escalate hard cases to a stronger and more expensive model.
arXiv:2608. 04804v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier language models can resolve repository-level software issues, but each attempt is expensive, and existing routers select a model from the issue text alone.
By Ishaan Bhola, Adithyan Krishnan, Mukunda NS
arXiv:2606. 19808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time reasoning is increasingly used as a serving-time control knob, but extra reasoning is not uniformly valuable: it can repair failed attempts, waste compute on already-correct answers, or introduce harmful answer changes.
By Sajib Acharjee Dip, Dawei Zhou, Liqing Zhang
arXiv:2607. 17240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When does a committed intermediate stage in an LLM reasoning pipeline earn its cost?
By Honglin Li (ShanghaiTech University)
arXiv:2608. 03222v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering (SWE) agents resolve repository-level issues through long trajectories that grow increasingly expensive as context accumulates.
By Chenyu Wang, Yunbo Lyu, Junda He, Zhou Yang, Chenxing Zhong, Yaniv Harel, David Lo
arXiv:2604. 13517v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Temporal credit assignment in reinforcement learning is often approached by introducing value estimates at multiple discount factors.
By Jing Sun