thaki-AI/daily-paper-2026-09-16-thinking-router-reasoning-budget-allocation

The Thinking Router: Measuring the Cost-Quality Frontier of Reasoning-Budget Allocation Between Skill Selection and Task Execution in Unattended Agent Loops TL;DR — Production agent loops spend nearly all of their extended-thinking budget on task execution while treating the skill router as a free classifier; this paper formalizes how to split a fixed reasoning budget between the routing and execution stages, deriving a water-filling allocation rule and a clean flip condition… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/thaki-AI/daily-paper-2026-09-16-thinking

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