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Pay for Hints, Not Answers: LLM Shepherding for Cost-Efficient Inference

Dong, Ziming et al.
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Large Language Models (LLMs) deliver state-of-the-art performance on complex reasoning tasks, but their inference costs limit deployment at scale. Small Language Models (SLMs) offer dramatic cost savings yet lag substantially in accuracy. Existing approaches - routing and cascading - treat the LLM a
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