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Morning Edition · Monday, July 13, 2026Published at 1:34 AM EDT · New York

Paper Argues LLM Reliability Comes From Inference-Time Control, Not Just Model Size

CogniConsole externalizes the control logic around a model into a formal abstraction, and reports reliability gains without a stronger backbone.

Paper Argues LLM Reliability Comes From Inference-Time Control, Not Just Model Size

A new preprint, CogniConsole, challenges the common assumption that reliability in language-model systems is mainly a function of model capability. The authors argue that a large share of reliability comes from inference-time control, meani…

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