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What Effort Level Should I Choose? On the Economics of Reasoning Effort in LLM Agents
arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language
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An arXiv paper frames LLM inference reasoning effort as a credence good, analyzing the economics of paying for inference-time compute.
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- Enterprise AI
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- arXiv cs.CL — Computation and Language · RESEARCH
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- 27 October 2026
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- 28 Oct 2026, 02:01 UK
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arXiv:2610.34491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative models increasingly expose a reasoning effort setting that lets users scale inference-time compute, trading higher cost for potentially improved…
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