Which LLM to pick? Online Active Model Selection for Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.01592 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Regret — 33× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Adam — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Abundance — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Sampling — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Integration of Large Language Models — 1× in this paper
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Objective Function — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transfer Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

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• MedHELM: Holistic Evaluation of Large Language Models for Medical Tasks
• Scaling Up Active Testing to Large Language Models
• Intelligent Clinical Documentation: Harnessing Generative AI for Patient-Centric Clinical Note Generation
• DistillNote: Toward a Functional Evaluation Framework of LLM-Generated Clinical Note Summaries
• Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
• On the application of Large Language Models for language teaching and assessment technology
• A Survey on Evaluation of Large Language Models
• FinQA: A Dataset of Numerical Reasoning over Financial Data
• Chatbot Arena: An Open Platform for Evaluating LLMs by Human Preference
• EduChat: A Large-Scale Language Model-based Chatbot System for Intelligent Education
• DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
• A Survey on In-context Learning
• Length-Controlled AlpacaEval: A Simple Way to Debias Automatic Evaluators
• A Bibliometric Review of Large Language Models Research from 2017 to 2023
• Irreducible Curriculum for Language Model Pretraining
• Language Models Do Hard Arithmetic Tasks Easily and Hardly Do Easy Arithmetic Tasks
• PAL: Program-aided Language Models

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