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When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty

As of 10 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 18 of 18 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.00685.

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Observation e97b5b1e-667a-4e86-9d97-1887e8fc79da · outbound

This paper cites Towards reasoning era: a survey of long chain-of-thought for reasoning large language models.Science China Information Sciences, 69(6):161101, May 2026b.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty Towards reasoning era: a survey of long chain-of-thought for reasoning large language models.Science China Information Sciences, 69(6):161101, May 2026b

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Observation 6faf6e14-da02-4a82-b125-ae09aafd60be · outbound

This paper cites ISBN 979-8-4007-1926-4.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty ISBN 979-8-4007-1926-4

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Observation 15a76664-0ca0-4ddf-81c1-9f23fc8aa58c · outbound

This paper cites OckBench: Measuring the Efficiency of LLM Reasoning.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty OckBench: Measuring the Efficiency of LLM Reasoning

Reference 7

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Observation c156dfc5-9448-4670-82f3-4014516eabdc · outbound

This paper cites A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents: A New Paradigm Bridging Foundation Models and Lifelong Agentic Systems.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty A Comprehensive Survey of Self-Evolving AI Agents: A New Paradigm Bridging Foundation Models and Lifelong Agentic Systems

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This paper cites arXiv:2511.01633 [cs].

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty arXiv:2511.01633 [cs]

Reference 9

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Observation 1ebcbd7d-f6bf-4016-b4c9-2421af7bfcdd · outbound

This paper cites doi: 10.1038/s42256-026-01268-y.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty doi: 10.1038/s42256-026-01268-y

Reference 10

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Observation 9c8679bc-9784-46cf-b2d9-9f4c4b70af0a · outbound

This paper cites 12 Isaac Ong, Amjad Almahairi, Vincent Wu, Wei-Lin Chiang, Tianhao Wu, Joseph E Gonzalez, M Kadous, and Ion Stoica.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty 12 Isaac Ong, Amjad Almahairi, Vincent Wu, Wei-Lin Chiang, Tianhao Wu, Joseph E Gonzalez, M Kadous, and Ion Stoica

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Observation 040158b0-c344-4ec1-b42d-dfdfc777750b · outbound

This paper cites Andries Smit, Nathan Grinsztajn, Paul Duckworth, Thomas D.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty Andries Smit, Nathan Grinsztajn, Paul Duckworth, Thomas D

Reference 13

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Observation 1de149db-2c16-47ab-816e-1ebee00562ba · outbound

This paper cites Jinwei Su, Qizhen Lan, Yinghui Xia, Lifan Sun, Weiyou Tian, Tianyu Shi, and Lewei He.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty Jinwei Su, Qizhen Lan, Yinghui Xia, Lifan Sun, Weiyou Tian, Tianyu Shi, and Lewei He

Reference 14

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This paper cites ISBN 979-8-4007-2307-0.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty ISBN 979-8-4007-2307-0

Reference 15

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Observation 5d490b22-8431-4b19-b5ba-61c3aa285a9f · outbound

This paper cites Single-Agent LLMs Outperform Multi-Agent Systems on Multi-Hop Reasoning Under Equal Thinking Token Budgets.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty Single-Agent LLMs Outperform Multi-Agent Systems on Multi-Hop Reasoning Under Equal Thinking Token Budgets

Reference 16

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Observation 2718083e-6941-4cc7-907f-0317309aeb28 · outbound

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When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty net/forum?id=YrycTjllL0

Reference 17

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Observation d9eb118e-d500-4204-b2dc-09666eeb3025 · outbound

This paper cites URL https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/ 2022/file/8bb0d291acd4acf06ef112099c16f326-Paper-Conference.pdf.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty URL https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/ 2022/file/8bb0d291acd4acf06ef112099c16f326-Paper-Conference.pdf

Reference 2022

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Observation 3157bd3e-ba94-457e-b85a-e179d197338b · outbound

This paper cites ComplexityNet: Increasing LLM Inference Efficiency by Learning Task Complexity.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty ComplexityNet: Increasing LLM Inference Efficiency by Learning Task Complexity

Reference 2023

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Observation f3ad080a-6702-4ca5-af59-5fe62095b3dc · outbound

This paper cites Shangheng Du, Jiabao Zhao, Jinxin Shi, Zhentao Xie, Xin Jiang, Yanhong Bai, and Liang He.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty Shangheng Du, Jiabao Zhao, Jinxin Shi, Zhentao Xie, Xin Jiang, Yanhong Bai, and Liang He

Reference 2024

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Observation acbbac15-9a46-4fd5-abdb-8885dcaa562f · outbound

This paper cites The Price Reversal Phenomenon: When Cheaper Reasoning Models Cost More.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty The Price Reversal Phenomenon: When Cheaper Reasoning Models Cost More

Reference 2025

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Observation 9faa2bda-5f36-4b73-be0c-208f8d9fdf24 · outbound

This paper cites MAS-PromptBench: When Does Prompt Optimization Improve Multi-Agent LLM Systems?.

When Does LLM Orchestration Pay Off? A Controlled Evaluation of Accuracy, Cost, and Task Difficulty MAS-PromptBench: When Does Prompt Optimization Improve Multi-Agent LLM Systems?

Reference 2026

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