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The Router Waited to See Progress

ProgRouter chooses a model at each workflow step from evolving completion, difficulty and budget signals.

Published Updated Story ID: mp-2026-08-27-005
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Summary

ProgRouter chooses a model at each workflow step from evolving completion, difficulty and budget signals.

A multi-view scorer tracks outcome regime, subtask completion, progress trends and state quality before a meta-gate estimates the gain from each candidate model. Experiments across coding, mathematics and retrieval-augmented question answering reduced operating cost against stated baselines while maintaining strong task performance; the abstract does not claim one universal saving.

Why it matters

ProgRouter chooses a model at each workflow step from evolving completion, difficulty and budget signals.

Limits and context

  • Experiments across coding, mathematics and retrieval-augmented question answering reduced operating cost against stated baselines while maintaining strong task performance; the abstract does not claim one universal saving.

Key claims

  1. ProgRouter chooses a model at each workflow step from evolving completion, difficulty and budget signals.

    Qualification: Experiments across coding, mathematics and retrieval-augmented question answering reduced operating cost against stated baselines while maintaining strong task performance; the abstract does not claim one universal saving.

    Evidence: source-2026-08-27-005

Sources

  1. arXiv preprint 2608.25992arXiv · primary research

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