@article{payforhintsnotanswersllmshepherdingforco,
  title = {Pay for Hints, Not Answers: LLM Shepherding for Cost-Efficient Inference},
  author = {Ziming Dong and Hardik Sharma and Evan O'Toole and Jaya Prakash Champati and Kui Wu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2601.22132},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22132},
}