thenaivekid/reasoning-models-cannot-budget-their-thinking
Paying more to be wrong: small reasoning models cannot tell how long to think Where this came from I came to this through model-routing work at a startup, where the job was to decide, per query, which model should answer. One idea going around from university and industry labs was to treat reasoning effort itself as a routing signal: a larger model costs more per token, but if it thinks briefly it can end up cheaper per answer than a small model that thinks for a… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/thenaivekid/reasoning-models-cannot-budget-their-thin
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- 22 Oct 2026 Description: Blind spot: small reasoning models cannot budget their own thinking Models evaluated (all 0.6B–4B, open weights, Hugging Face): Model Mode Role in this study Qwen/Qwen3-4B-Thinking-2507 (FP8) thinking primary model: the closest 0.6–6B analo → Paying more to be wrong: small reasoning models cannot tell how long to think Where this came from I came to this through model-routing work at a startup, where the job was to decide, per query, which model should answer. One idea going aro
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