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  1. RAGScope: A Leakage-Controlled, Cost-Aware Evidence-Gating Protocol for RAG Hallucination Triage

    Sep 30, 2026Zeming Liu, Qibai Chen, Jingtao Zhang +1LeakageCost-Aware

    Brown University, United States · Independent Researcher, United States · Georgia Institute of Technology, United States

  2. PentestChain: A Cost-Aware, MCP-Orchestrated Framework for Automated Penetration Testing with Free-Tier LLMs

    Sep 16, 2026Rushabh Vipulkumar Patel, Dipo Dunsin, Mohammed Almaiah +1Penetration TestingCost-Aware

    Computer Security Laboratory, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, London, United Kingdom · King Abdullah IT School, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan · School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Keele University, Newcastle-under-Lyme, United Kingdom

  3. HyGRAIL: Cost-Aware and Evidence-Grounded Scientific Hypothesis Discovery over Knowledge Graphs

    Sep 2, 2026Yihang Sun, Zhihan Zhu, Zhiyuan Jiang +3Knowledge GraphsHypothesis-Driven Model Expansion

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  4. The Embedder's Dilemma: LLMs Are Better, but at What Cost?

    Aug 13, 2026Adnan El Assadi, Niklas Muennighoff, Jinhyuk LeeText EmbeddingsLLM Inference Optimization

    Harvard University · Stanford University · Independent Researcher

  5. SCOPE-Router: Cost-Aware Open-Set VLM Routing for Execution-Oriented Tasks

    Aug 12, 2026Tao Yu, Yifei Qu, Zhiqing Cui +14Large Language Model RoutingCost-Aware

    1CASIA · 3NUS · 2UCAS +1

  6. Optimize Cheap, Deploy Strong: Cost-Aware Cross-Tier Transfer for Evolutionary Optimization

    Aug 11, 2026Tal Oved, Roi Pony, Oshri Naparstek +1Cost-AwarePrompt Optimization

    IBM Research

  7. The Price of Isolation: Estimating the Ecosystem Cost of Symmetric Two-Sided A/B Testing

    Aug 5, 2026Yuanyuan Shen, Yiren Yan, Wenjie Li +1Cost-AwareControlled Study

    Snap Inc. New York, NY, USA · Snap Inc. Palo Alto, CA, USA

  8. Cost-Aware Multi-Objective Bandits: Theory and Application to Budgeted LLM Configuration Evaluation

    Aug 5, 2026Bo Xue, Zhi Hong, Jiayi Li +3Cost-AwareLarge Language Model Evaluation

    City University of Hong Kong · South China University of Technology · Zhejiang University

  9. Scores Are Not Decisions: Cost-Aware Stopping for Tool Acquisition in LLM Agents

    Jul 29, 2026Yicheng Feng, Yan Zhang, Yan Cheng +1Cost-AwareLarge Language Model Agents

    School of Advanced Manufacturing and Robotics, Peking University · Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University · Business School, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics +1

  10. Budget-Aware LLM Discovery via Cost-Calibrated Frontier Utility

    Jul 29, 2026Yansen Zhang, Yilu Liu, Tianyu Liu +6Cost-AwareFrontiers

    International Digital Economy Academy (IDEA) · City University of Hong Kong · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

  11. Agent-UCT: Upper Confidence Bounds Applied to Trees for Agentic Workflow Optimization with Cost-Awareness

    Jul 27, 2026Yang Li, Hai Liu, Dian Shao +8Agentic WorkflowsAgentic Optimization

    1The University of Hong Kong · School of Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University · 3The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +2

  12. Cost-Aware Recovery-Pathway Identification and Bayesian Optimization for Autonomous Materials Discovery

    Jul 26, 2026Debajyoti Ray, Niranjan SrinivasMulti-Objective Bayesian Optimization AlgorithmsBayesian Optimization

    Coactive Science

  13. From Novice to Expert: Cost-Aware Bandits for Evolving Worker Performance in Crowdsensing

    Jul 15, 2026Yin Huang, Qingsong Liu, Jie XuCrowdsourced FrameworkCollaborative Sensing

    Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst

  14. Cost-Governed RAG: Unified Per-Tenant Cost Attribution Across Retrieval and Generation in Multi-Tenant LLM Systems

    Jul 13, 2026Navnit ShuklaRetrieval-Augmented Generation PipelinesCost-Aware

    AI Platform Engineering Snowflake Inc. Tustin, California, USA

  15. Quantum Circuit Vision: Cost-Aware Evaluation of Visual AI Agents for Quantum Code Generation

    Jul 11, 2026Dongping Liu, Aoyu Zhang, Luyao ZhangQuantum Error CorrectionCost-Aware

    Amazon Web Services Hong Kong, China · Amazon Web Services Beijing, China · Digital Innovation Research Center and Social Science Division, Duke Kunshan University Address: Duke Avenue No.8, Kunshan, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, 215316

  16. SAGEAgent: A Self-Evolving Agent for Cost-Aware Modality Acquisition in Multimodal Survival Prediction

    Jul 10, 2026Chongyu Qu, Can Cui, Zhengyi Lu +8Survival PredictionsMultimodal Clinical Data

    Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37235, USA · Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN, 37232 USA

  17. AdaStop: Cost-Aware Early Stopping for DNN Test Selection

    Jul 6, 2026Bonan Shen, Wei-Jung Huang, Xin Liu +2Early StoppingLoss Function

    Independent Researcher

  18. Accuracy and Cost Claims Do Not Survive Re-Execution in Agentic VideoQA

    Jul 1, 2026Rama AlHamidi, Aseel Mohamed, Rasul Khanbayov +3Video AgentModel Auditing

    Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, TX, United States · College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

  19. When Does Learning to Stop Help? A Cost-Aware Study of Early Exits in Reasoning Models

    Jun 29, 2026Zhe Dong, Fang Qin, Manish ShahEarly StoppingLarge Reasoning Models

    University of Maine at Presque Isle · Stanford University · Independent Researcher

  20. CLQT: A Closed-Loop, Cost-Aware, Strategy-Consistent Benchmark for Diagnostic Evaluation of LLM Portfolio-Management Agents

    Jun 29, 2026Bo Qu, Mingguang ChenCost-Aware

    Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). · University of California, Riverside (UCR).

  21. Rate-Aware Quantum-Inspired Trajectory Learning for Interference-Limited Multi-UAV Networks

    Jun 24, 2026Khaoula Khaled, Muhammad Afaq, Ali Arshad Nasir +1Multi-UavPower Allocation

    Department of Computer Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia · Computer Engineering Department and IRC for Intelligent Secure Systems, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia · Interdisciplinary Research Center for Communication Systems and Sensing (IRC-CSS), Department of Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia +1

  22. Memory as a Wasting Asset: Pricing Flash Endurance for Embodied Agents, and the Limits of Doing So

    Jun 16, 2026Josef Liyanjun ChenCost-AwareEmbodied Agents

    KAIKAKU

  23. CAMI: Cost-Aware Agent-Guided Multi-Indexing for Semantic Retrieval

    Jun 14, 2026Adnan Qidwai, Anand Eswaran, Sonam Mishra +2Precision RecallCost-Aware

    IBM Software Innovation Lab India

  24. What Should a Skill Remember? Quality--Cost Trade-offs in Cost-Aware Skill Rewriting for Language Model Agents

    Jun 8, 2026Qinghua Xing, Yinda Chen, Yaping Jin +6Reusable Agent SkillsLarge Language Model Agents

    University of Science and Technology of China · 2Huawei Technologies · 3Tianjin University

  25. CRAFT: Cost-aware Refinement And Front-aware Tuning of Prompts

    Jun 3, 2026Shanu Kumar, Shubhanshu Khandelwal, Akhila Yesantarao Venkata +3Cost-AwareInference Cost

    MBZUAI · Microsoft

  26. When Knowledge Is Not Free: Cost-Aware Evidence Selection in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Jun 1, 2026Mingyan Wu, Han Yang, Omer Ben-Porat +1Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsCost-Aware

    Northeastern University · Technical University of Munich · GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences +3

  27. SDM-Q: Cost-Aware Staged Decision-Making for Multi-Omics Classification with Deep Q-Learning

    May 29, 2026Nan Mu, Yangfan Xiao, Ling Wang +3Multi-Omic IntegrationMultimodal Clinical Data

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610101, China. · Department of Mathematics, College of Science and Mathematics, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA 30144, USA. · Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Software Engineering, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA 30060, USA.

  28. Audio Jailbreaks in Large Audio-Language Models: Taxonomy, Attack-Defense Analysis, and Cost-Aware Evaluation

    May 28, 2026Bo-Han Feng, Yu-Hsuan Li Liang, Chien-Feng Liu +2Large Language Model JailbreaksLarge Audio Language Models

    National Taiwan University

  29. Heterogeneous AAV Logistics Task Allocation: A Reinforcement Learning Enhanced Overlapping Coalition Formation Game Approach

    May 26, 2026Yuze Zhou, Jingliang Sun, Junzhi Li +3Heterogeneous Robot TeamsCoalition Formation

    Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Key Laboratory of Dynamics and Control of Flight Vehicle, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100081, China · Beijing Institute of Technology Chongqing Innovation Center, Chongqing, 401121, China +1

  30. Neural Bayesian Sequential Routing

    May 22, 2026Yongchao HuangBayesian Neural NetworksSequential Decision Making

  31. Agentic Cost-Aware Query Planning with Knowledge Distillation for Big Data Analytics

    May 18, 2026Mahdi Naser-MoghadasiData LakesCost-Aware

    Research Division, BrightMind AI, Seattle, WA · Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

  32. CR^2: Cost-Aware Risk-Controlled Routing for Wireless Device-Edge LLM Inference

    May 12, 2026Nan Xue, Shengkang Chen, Zhiyong Chen +4Large Language Model RoutingEdge Devices

    Cooperative Medianet Innovation Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · Department of Broadband Communication, Pengcheng Laboratory, Shenzhen 518000, China · Future Network of Intelligent Institute (FNii), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518172, China +1

  33. AgentSlimming: Towards Efficient and Cost-Aware Multi-Agent Systems

    May 9, 2026Yulang Chen, Haoxuan Peng, Jinyan Liu +3Multi-Agent WorkflowsNetwork Topology

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Nanjing University · 3The University of Sydney +2

  34. SpecBlock: Block-Iterative Speculative Decoding with Dynamic Tree Drafting

    May 8, 2026Weijie Shi, Qiang Xu, Fan Deng +9Speculative DecodingDrafter

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · MetaX · Zhejiang Normal University +1

  35. NH-CROP: Robust Pricing for Governed Language Data Assets under Cost Uncertainty

    May 3, 2026Xu Zheng, Feiyu Wu, Zhuocheng Wang +2Dynamic PricingPrices

    School of Cyber Engineering, Xidian University

  36. Model-Based Proactive Cost Generation for Learning Safe Policies Offline with Limited Violation Data

    May 2, 2026Ruiqi Xue, Lei Yuan, Kainuo Cheng +2Safety ConstraintsLearning Policy

    National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University · Polixir Technologies +2

  37. ClawTrace: Cost-Aware Tracing for LLM Agent Skill Distillation

    Apr 26, 2026Boqin Yuan, Yue Su, Renchu Song +2Reusable Agent SkillsSkills

    University of California San Diego · San Diego, CA · Carnegie Mellon University +3

  38. QuantClaw: Precision Where It Matters for OpenClaw

    Apr 24, 2026Manyi Zhang, Ji-Fu Li, Zhongao Sun +5OpenclawAgentic Inference

    Huawei Technologies · National University of Singapore · University of Science and Technology of China

  39. PoQ-Judge: A Multi-Architecture Evaluation Framework for Cost-Aware Proof-of-Quality in Decentralized LLM Inference

    Apr 20, 2026Arther Tian, Alex Ding, Frank Chen +2Large Language Model JudgesLLM Inference Optimization

    DGrid AI

  40. Route to Rome Attack: Directing LLM Routers to Expensive Models via Adversarial Suffix Optimization

    Apr 16, 2026Haochun Tang, Yuliang Yan, Jiahua Lu +2Large Language Model RoutingCost-Aware

    1Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering, MoE, Jilin University · 2The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  41. CostBench: Evaluating Multi-Turn Cost-Optimal Planning and Adaptation in Dynamic Environments for LLM Tool-Use Agents

    Nov 4, 2025Jiayu Liu, Cheng Qian, Zhaochen Su +4Large Language Model PlanningCost-Aware

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Tsinghua University