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[Submitted on 7 Jul 2026] Title:Optimal Model Activation Policies for Inference Networks of Large Language Models View a PDF of the paper titled Optimal Model Activation Policies for Inference Networks of Large Language Models, by Foivos Charalampakos and Md Ibrahim Ibne Alam and Iordanis Koutsopoulos and Koushik Kar View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have rendered them necessary for Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, and their high inference cost motivates the study of cost-performance trade-offs. In practice, several expert LLMs are used in synergy for inference, either in an ensemble mode or in series, yet without a principled approach on how to best use the available models. An adaptive approach can route simple queries to cheaper LLMs and complex ones to more capable, costly models. However, a clear understanding on how to best leverage available expert models is missing. We introduce inference networks, a graph-based framework, where nodes denote different LLMs, and links denote conditional model activations. The inference network design problem is to determine the best topology, namely the best way to use the models that best addresses the cost-performance trade-off. We start from the basic topology of a series of LLM experts, each of which has a different cost and a different level of expertise, which is captured via model confidence. We formulate the problem of optimal activation of these models so as to minimize the expected inference cost subject to a target performance constraint. For this special class of inference networks, we prove that the optimal activation policy has a threshold structure: query the lowest-cost LLM first, and invoke the more expensive LLM only if the confidence falls below a defined threshold. For discriminative tasks, the optimal policy consists of a set of thresholds, one threshold for each class, while for generative tasks, it consists of a single threshold. We provide a structured method to compute the thresholds, and practical confidence estimation mechanisms for both task types. Experiments with open-source LLMs show substantial cost reductions while meeting the specified performance budget. Subjects: Computation and Language (cs.CL) Cite as: arXiv:2609.15992 [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2609.15992v1 [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.15992 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite Submission history From: Foivos Charalampakos [view email] [v1] Tue, 7 Jul 2026 21:01:56 UTC (205 KB) Full-text links: Access Paper: View a PDF of the paper titled Optimal Model Activation Policies for Inference Networks of Large Language Models, by Foivos Charalampakos and Md Ibrahim Ibne Alam and Iordanis Koutsopoulos and Koushik Kar View PDF HTML (experimental) TeX Source view license Current browse context: cs.CL new | recent | 2026-09 Change to browse by: cs 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?)