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@techreport{thaki2026ensamblerouter,
title = {Cross-Tier Model Ensemble Voting for Skill Routing: A Cost--Quality Study Beyond Single-Signal Retrieval Fusion},
author = {{ThakiCloud AI Research (Hyojung Han)}},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
institution = {ThakiCloud},
url = {https://thakicloud.com/tech-blog/ko/research/ensemble-tier-voting-skill-router/},
note = {Dataset: \url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/thaki-AI/daily-paper-2026-08-06-ensemble-tier-voting-skill-router}}
}
@techreport{thaki2026toolcallcliff,
title = {The Tool-Call Cliff: Measuring the Accuracy Decay of Agentic Structured Output Under Low-Bit Quantization in Self-Hosted H200 Serving},
author = {{ThakiCloud AI Research (Hyojung Han)}},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
institution = {ThakiCloud},
url = {https://thakicloud.com/tech-blog/ko/research/tool-call-quantization-cliff/},
note = {Dataset: \url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/thaki-AI/daily-paper-2026-09-17-tool-call-quantization-cliff}}
}
@techreport{thaki2026verbositytax,
title = {The Reasoning Verbosity Tax: Per-Turn Cost--Quality Frontiers of Explicit vs.\ Compact Chain-of-Thought in Self-Hosted Agentic LLMs on H200},
author = {{ThakiCloud AI Research (Hyojung Han)}},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
institution = {ThakiCloud},
url = {https://thakicloud.com/tech-blog/ko/research/reasoning-verbosity-tax-agentic-cost/},
note = {Dataset: \url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/thaki-AI/daily-paper-2026-09-11-reasoning-verbosity-tax-agentic-cost}}
}
@techreport{thaki2026manifestorder,
title = {The Manifest Order: Measuring KV-Cache Prefix Reuse and Token Cost Savings from Skill-Manifest and Tool-Schema Ordering in Unattended Agentic Loops on H200},
author = {{ThakiCloud AI Research (Hyojung Han)}},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
institution = {ThakiCloud},
url = {https://thakicloud.com/tech-blog/ko/research/agentic-prefix-reuse-manifest-ordering/},
note = {Dataset: \url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/thaki-AI/daily-paper-2026-09-20-agentic-prefix-reuse-manifest-ordering}}
}
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@misc{arxiv260528840,
title = {How Consistent Are {LLM} Agents? Measuring Behavioral Reproducibility in Multi-Step Tool-Calling Pipelines},
author = {Yagubyan, Abel},
year = {2026},
month = apr,
eprint = {2605.28840},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28840}
}
@misc{arxiv260508680,
title = {Semantic Voting: Execution-Grounded Consensus for {LLM} Code Generation},
author = {Jiang, Shan and Yi, Zijian and Zhu, Chenguang},
year = {2026},
month = may,
eprint = {2605.08680},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08680}
}
@misc{arxiv260805643,
title = {Refining Over Resampling: Test-Time Self-Correction for {LLM} Reasoning},
author = {Bilal, Ahsan and Mohsin, Muhammad Ahmed and Umer, Muhammad and Trigg, Lena},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
eprint = {2608.05643},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.05643}
}
@misc{arxiv260806370,
title = {The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling},
author = {Patel, Ishan and Sen, Sahil and Lumer, Elias and Subbiah, Vamse Kumar},
year = {2026},
month = aug,
eprint = {2608.06370},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06370}
}
@misc{arxiv260327905,
title = {ATLAS-RTC: Closing the Loop on {LLM} Agent Output with Token-Level Runtime Control},
author = {Cruz, Christopher},
year = {2026},
month = mar,
eprint = {2603.27905},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27905}
}
@misc{arxiv260423577,
title = {RouteNLP: Closed-Loop {LLM} Routing with Conformal Cascading and Distillation Co-Optimization},
author = {Guo, Dongxin and Wu, Jikun and Yiu, Siu Ming},
year = {2026},
month = apr,
eprint = {2604.23577},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.23577}
}
@misc{arxiv260530898,
title = {UniScale: Adaptive Unified Inference Scaling via Online Joint Optimization of Model Routing and Test-Time Scaling},
author = {Huang, Kaiyu and Wang, Xingyu and Kong, Mingze and Shi, Zhubo},
year = {2026},
month = may,
eprint = {2605.30898},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30898}
}
@misc{arxiv260312520,
title = {When {LLM} Judge Scores Look Good but Best-of-{N} Decisions Fail},
author = {Landesberg, Eddie},
year = {2026},
month = mar,
eprint = {2603.12520},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12520}
}
@misc{arxiv260417433,
title = {Self-Consistency from Only Two Samples: CoT-PoT Ensembling for Efficient {LLM} Reasoning},
author = {Saparkhan, Raman and Hawasly, Majd and Parvez, Md Rizwan and Raza, Mohammad},
year = {2026},
month = apr,
eprint = {2604.17433},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.17433}
}
@misc{arxiv260913559,
title = {Carbon-Aware Routing for Function Calling in Edge-Cloud {LLM} Systems},
author = {Panteleaki, Aikaterini Maria and Paramanayakam, Varatheepan and Tragoudas, Spyros and Anagnostopoulos, Iraklis},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
eprint = {2609.13559},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13559}
}
@misc{arxiv260713347,
title = {LLM-as-a-Judge Scores Are Unreliable Optimization Signals in Closed-Loop Table Recognition},
author = {Kim, Donghwan},
year = {2026},
month = jul,
eprint = {2607.13347},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.13347}
}
@misc{arxiv260600135,
title = {On Effectiveness and Efficiency of Agentic Tool-calling and RL Training},
author = {Liu, Tong and Qian, Cheng and Cief, Matej and He, Yuan and Dan, Daniele},
year = {2026},
month = may,
eprint = {2606.00135},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.00135}
}
% ---------------- External: pre-2026-03 classics (verified 2026-09-23) ----------------
@misc{arxiv220311171,
title = {Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models},
author = {Wang, Xuezhi and Wei, Jason and Schuurmans, Dale and Le, Quoc and Chi, Ed and Narang, Sharanya and Chowdhery, Aakanksha and Zhou, Denny},
year = {2022},
eprint = {2203.11171},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.11171}
}
% ---------------- Benchmark (verified 2026-09-23) ----------------
@misc{bfcl2024leaderboard,
title = {Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)},
author = {{UC Berkeley (Gorilla project)}},
year = {2024},
url = {https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html},
note = {Dataset: \url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/gorilla-llm/Berkeley-Function-Calling-Leaderboard}}
}
@misc{arxiv240417140,
title = {Small Language Models Need Strong Verifiers to Self-Correct Reasoning},
author = {Zhang, Yunxiang and Khalifa, Muhammad and Logeswaran, Lajanugen and Kim, Jaekyeom and Bhatt, Gaurav and Zettable, Yulia and Faruqui, Manaal},
year = {2024},
eprint = {2404.17140},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17140}
}
@misc{arxiv250618781,
title = {Existing {LLMs} Are Not Self-Consistent For Simple Tasks},
author = {Lin, Zhenru and Tao, Jiawen and Yuan, Yang and Yao, Andrew Chi-Chih},
year = {2025},
month = jun,
eprint = {2506.18781},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18781}
}