@article{thechickenandeggdilemmacooptimizingdataa, title = {The Chicken and Egg Dilemma: Co-optimizing Data and Model Configurations for LLMs}, author = {Zhiliang Chen and Alfred Wei Lun Leong and Shao Yong Ong and Apivich Hemachandra and Gregory Kang Ruey Lau and Chuan-Sheng Foo and Zhengyuan Liu and Nancy F. Chen and Bryan Kian Hsiang Low}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.08351}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.08351}, }