Paper: hybrid self-routing model learns when to reason, cutting tokens and latency

Zhengxu Yu · hf · 2026-11-14

The paper "The Value of Thinking: Learning When to Reason in Hybrid Decision Models" proposes a hybrid decision model that routes between implicit single-forward-pass answering and full autoregressive reasoning.

A self-routing block trained with calibrated decision policy optimization decides per input, reducing token and latency costs while preserving accuracy.

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