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Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization

As of 16 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 15 of 15 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.13087.

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Outbound references

Observation 5a8a6f06-73ad-4bf0-9b93-33d0fc00c7f3 · outbound

This paper cites Attention, Learn to Solve Routing Problems!.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Attention, Learn to Solve Routing Problems!

Reference 1

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Observation 57a234b9-76ac-4db1-aa05-0c3b8e6cc859 · outbound

This paper cites POMO: Policy Optimization with Multiple Optima for Reinforcement Learning.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization POMO: Policy Optimization with Multiple Optima for Reinforcement Learning

Reference 2

Resolution: verified exact; local_arxiv, observed 2026-08-15T17:07:33.357091Z

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Observation 76f15da4-7892-4802-9aca-2477dff15c56 · outbound

This paper cites The optimizer’s curse: Skepticism and postdecision surprise in decision analysis,.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization The optimizer’s curse: Skepticism and postdecision surprise in decision analysis,

Reference 3

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Observation 301d56c2-e4a4-4eaa-8ac4-d1101f2cc894 · outbound

This paper cites Inference on winners,.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Inference on winners,

Reference 4

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Observation 97894c58-b307-472d-bb4b-d8d0a7e59b10 · outbound

This paper cites A reality check for data snooping,.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization A reality check for data snooping,

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Observation fa07f47f-f2cd-4884-909c-8ef2d82f739e · outbound

This paper cites A test for superior predictive ability,.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization A test for superior predictive ability,

Reference 6

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Observation cb1efb69-9c87-4bcd-ae90-ee6b9dff526e · outbound

This paper cites Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters

Reference 7

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Observation 30e77e02-c13e-4d39-a806-ddbef2ff2643 · outbound

This paper cites Neural Solver Selection for Combinatorial Optimization.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Neural Solver Selection for Combinatorial Optimization

Reference 8

Resolution: verified exact; local_arxiv, observed 2026-08-15T17:07:33.331893Z

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Observation e5f5d7e1-bc74-4a83-b994-9ea56866e587 · outbound

This paper cites The deflated Sharpe ratio: Correcting for selection bias, backtest overfitting, and non-normality,.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization The deflated Sharpe ratio: Correcting for selection bias, backtest overfitting, and non-normality,

Reference 9

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Observation 406723b1-46d9-4a77-84df-767d840e65f8 · outbound

This paper cites Towards Reliable LLM Evaluation: Correcting the Winner's Curse in Adaptive Benchmarking.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Towards Reliable LLM Evaluation: Correcting the Winner's Curse in Adaptive Benchmarking

Reference 10

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Observation 230dbc34-6084-406a-a9c6-4ef50b2bd146 · outbound

This paper cites Learning How Hard to Think: Input-Adaptive Allocation of LM Computation.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Learning How Hard to Think: Input-Adaptive Allocation of LM Computation

Reference 11

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Observation e86b35c9-246d-4bad-84de-d59639e93ae5 · outbound

This paper cites Large Language Monkeys: Scaling Inference Compute with Repeated Sampling.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Large Language Monkeys: Scaling Inference Compute with Repeated Sampling

Reference 12

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Observation e851859b-5cc8-47da-b9cf-2472c34436a1 · outbound

This paper cites Sym-NCO: Leveraging Symmetricity for Neural Combinatorial Optimization.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Sym-NCO: Leveraging Symmetricity for Neural Combinatorial Optimization

Reference 13

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Observation 6ac0eb79-ac29-430a-a709-e68685e43b42 · outbound

This paper cites How good is neural combina- torial optimization? A systematic evaluation on the traveling salesman problem,.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization How good is neural combina- torial optimization? A systematic evaluation on the traveling salesman problem,

Reference 14

Resolution: verified fuzzy; raw_fallback, observed 2026-08-15T17:07:33.377888Z

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Observation 77e5f5b9-0998-427c-bad0-ba248bce81ce · outbound

This paper cites Do ImageNet Classifiers Generalize to ImageNet?.

Sampling Luck Masquerades as Allocation Gain: Auditing Test-Time Budget Allocation for Neural Combinatorial Optimization Do ImageNet Classifiers Generalize to ImageNet?

Reference 15

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