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Routing Inference

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The arXiv paper C²-Routing (Nov 10) moves routing to the input layer, pairing image cropping with compression as a model-agnostic way to shrink what a vision-language model must process for visual question answering.

Earlier contextThe story so far

This is a loose topical cluster, not one event: three unrelated items that each use "routing" to cut inference cost or latency at a different layer. OpenRouter rebuilt provider routing in its hosted gateway on Oct 30, and a Show HN on Nov 7 introduced Sibyl, an immutable local inference appliance with routing built in.

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Oct 30Nov 10 · now
GATEWAY · Oct 30
OpenRouter rebuilds provider routing for better, faster inference
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LOCAL · Nov 7
Sibyl packages a local inference stack as an immutable appliance with routing
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RESEARCH · Nov 10
C²-Routing applies routing to VLM inputs: cropping plus compression
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What to watch — open questions

  • Does OpenRouter publish latency or success-rate numbers that quantify the rebuilt provider routing?
  • Does Sibyl's routing select among local models and backends only, or can it also fall back to hosted providers?
  • How much accuracy does C²-Routing give up for its input reduction, and does the result hold across VLMs beyond those the paper tests?
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