RouteProfile: Graph-Based Profiling for Cold-Start LLM Routing

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Autori principali: Xu, Jingjun, Pu, Hongji, Feng, Tao, Zhang, Haozhen, You, Jiaxuan, Liu, Ge
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author Xu, Jingjun
Pu, Hongji
Feng, Tao
Zhang, Haozhen
You, Jiaxuan
Liu, Ge
author_facet Xu, Jingjun
Pu, Hongji
Feng, Tao
Zhang, Haozhen
You, Jiaxuan
Liu, Ge
contents LLM routing is increasingly important for selecting suitable models under diverse user needs and deployment constraints, but its practical effectiveness depends on continual adaptation to emerging queries and newly released models. New-LLM integration is particularly challenging, as newly released models lack the query-response-reward interactions required for router training and cannot be profiled as directly as new queries via semantic embeddings. Existing profiles are limited: LLM-generated descriptions are often coarse, while interaction-based embeddings are costly to construct. To address this problem, we propose RouteProfile, a graph-based profiling framework that constructs LLM profiles from public signals in technical reports or model cards, including model family, model description, reported benchmark scores, and benchmark domains. RouteProfile organizes these heterogeneous signals into a graph and studies profile construction along four dimensions: organizational form, representation type, aggregation depth, and learning configuration. We evaluate RouteProfile in training-free cold-start routing and new-LLM integration settings. Experiments show that: (1) structured profiles outperform flat baselines in training-free cold-start routing; (2) model family metadata is more reliable than benchmark domain information; and (3) effective new-LLM integration requires profile-router co-design. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of profile design for enabling routing systems to adapt to the evolving model ecosystem.
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spellingShingle RouteProfile: Graph-Based Profiling for Cold-Start LLM Routing
Xu, Jingjun
Pu, Hongji
Feng, Tao
Zhang, Haozhen
You, Jiaxuan
Liu, Ge
Networking and Internet Architecture
Computation and Language
LLM routing is increasingly important for selecting suitable models under diverse user needs and deployment constraints, but its practical effectiveness depends on continual adaptation to emerging queries and newly released models. New-LLM integration is particularly challenging, as newly released models lack the query-response-reward interactions required for router training and cannot be profiled as directly as new queries via semantic embeddings. Existing profiles are limited: LLM-generated descriptions are often coarse, while interaction-based embeddings are costly to construct. To address this problem, we propose RouteProfile, a graph-based profiling framework that constructs LLM profiles from public signals in technical reports or model cards, including model family, model description, reported benchmark scores, and benchmark domains. RouteProfile organizes these heterogeneous signals into a graph and studies profile construction along four dimensions: organizational form, representation type, aggregation depth, and learning configuration. We evaluate RouteProfile in training-free cold-start routing and new-LLM integration settings. Experiments show that: (1) structured profiles outperform flat baselines in training-free cold-start routing; (2) model family metadata is more reliable than benchmark domain information; and (3) effective new-LLM integration requires profile-router co-design. Overall, our findings highlight the importance of profile design for enabling routing systems to adapt to the evolving model ecosystem.
title RouteProfile: Graph-Based Profiling for Cold-Start LLM Routing
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00180