@article{canalightweightmultimodalmodelestimatell,
  title = {Can a Lightweight Multimodal Model Estimate LLM Reasoning Performance? A Study for Compute-Optimal Document Inference},
  author = {Zishan Ahmad and Vishal Vaddina},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2608.18591},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18591},
}