# 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.

- Published: 2026-07-13T05:34:23.811Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-07-13/paper-argues-llm-reliability-comes-from-inference-time-contr
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [arXiv](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08774)

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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