Pandora’s Router balances estimation and routing costs
A paper published on August 22, 2026 proposes using cheap, noisy estimates before paying for better evaluations. On MATH, RAG, and EmbedLLM, it achieved or tied for the lowest average combined inspection cost and routing regret.
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What happened and what to do
The paper, published on August 22, 2026, frames model selection as a Pandora’s Box problem: the router uses cheap, noisy scores and pays for better estimates when their expected value exceeds their cost. On MATH, RAG, and EmbedLLM, the method achieved or tied for the lowest average combined inspection cost and routing regret.
A company can apply this approach by evaluating the cost and quality of its router’s decisions on real tasks. A project could instrument calls, estimates, spending, and outcomes; compare selection policies; and determine when an additional evaluation is worthwhile, without assuming that a more expensive model is always necessary.
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