Ballad: Bandit-Based LLM Routing for Automated Heuristic Discovery

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Что произошло

Ballad, a bandit algorithm, routes queries across multiple LLMs to solve combinatorial optimization problems, matching best individual models while cutting API costs by up to 65.6%.

Почему это важно

Teams building automated heuristic discovery systems or using multiple LLMs for optimization should consider this when balancing solution quality against inference expenses.

На что обратить внимание

The approach assumes access to a pool of diverse LLMs and requires tracking genealogy of solutions; effectiveness on other problem domains beyond the five tested remains unclear.