thaki-AI/daily-paper-2026-09-11-reasoning-verbosity-tax-agentic-cost

The Reasoning Verbosity Tax: Per-Turn Cost-Quality Frontiers of Explicit vs. Compact Chain-of-Thought in Self-Hosted Agentic LLMs on H200 TL;DR — An analytical paper that turns the Qwen3 thinking toggle into a priced dial for self-hosted agentic LLM loops: explicit chain-of-thought persisted in context compounds a per-turn verbosity tax quadratically in the horizon (Theta(T^2)) versus linearly (Theta(T)) under a discard policy, the relative tax widens monotonically toward a… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/thaki-AI/daily-paper-2026-09-11-reasoning-verbosity-tax-agentic-cost.