@article{calibratethenactcostawareexplorationinll, title = {Calibrate-Then-Act: Cost-Aware Exploration in LLM Agents}, author = {Wenxuan Ding and Nicholas Tomlin and Greg Durrett}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.16699}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16699}, }