You're Hired: Strategic Model Selection for LLM Collaboration

arXiv:2609.38816 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 6× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Item Response Theory — 3× in this paper
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Hallucination — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Abstention — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accountability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Selection — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adversarial Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic Evaluation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Search — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fingerprinting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Hallucination Detection — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transferability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Transformer Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Program Synthesis with Large Language Models
• Learning Compact Representations of LLM Abilities via Item Response Theory
• Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
• Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge
• MoCo: A One-Stop Shop for Model Collaboration Research
• Holistic Evaluation of Language Models
• Qwen2.5 Technical Report
• LLM Chemistry Estimation for Multi-LLM Recommendation

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