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[Submitted on 22 Sep 2026] Title:COMED: The Missing Middle Between Routing and Collaboration in Multi-LLM Inference View a PDF of the paper titled COMED: The Missing Middle Between Routing and Collaboration in Multi-LLM Inference, by Norah Alballa and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:No single Large Language Model (LLM) is uniformly reliable across queries, motivating multi-model inference systems that either route among models or combine their outputs. However, routing stops after selecting an initial model, while dense collaboration invokes peers on every query. We show that collaboration is non-monotonic: peers can recover failures that no model solves alone, but can also corrupt initially correct answers. We introduce COMED (Controlled Model Escalation for Multi-LLM Deliberation), a post-anchor controller for selective cross-model collaboration. COMED uses anchor self-consistency, router margin, and a lightweight peer probe to accept confident answers, verify ambiguous cases, and escalate only when collaboration is likely beneficial. We formalize this trade-off with a rescue-harm decomposition showing that selective collaboration improves when rescued errors outweigh collaboration-induced harms. Across medical, scientific, and general reasoning benchmarks, COMED improves fixed and routed anchors in all 16 open-weight settings, with gains up to +10.7 percentage points on MedQA while invoking fewer models and using fewer decoded tokens than dense collaboration. On HLE with frontier models, COMED improves GPT-5.5 from 23.1% to 28.1%, outperforming dense collaboration and achieving the best results. Comments: Accepted at AACL-IJCNLP 2026 Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) Cite as: arXiv:2609.26913 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2609.26913v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.26913 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Norah Alballa [view email] [v1] Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:10:07 UTC (1,907 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled COMED: The Missing Middle Between Routing and Collaboration in Multi-LLM Inference, by Norah Alballa and 6 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs cs.AI References & Citations NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Loading... Data provided by: Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article alphaXiv Toggle alphaXiv (What is alphaXiv?) Links to Code Toggle CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?) DagsHub Toggle DagsHub (What is DagsHub?) GotitPub Toggle Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?) Huggingface Toggle Hugging Face (What is Huggingface?) ScienceCast Toggle ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?) Demos Demos Replicate Toggle Replicate (What is Replicate?) Spaces Toggle Hugging Face Spaces (What is Spaces?) Spaces Toggle TXYZ.AI (What is TXYZ.AI?) Related Papers Recommenders and Search Tools Link to Influence Flower Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?) Core recommender toggle CORE Recommender (What is CORE?) Author Venue Institution Topic About arXivLabs arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them. Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs. Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)