Yigit Turkmen

Keep, Customize, or Exit: Default Design and Token Pricing in LLM Reasoning Services

We study a large language model (LLM) service in which a provider chooses a per-token price and a default reasoning-token allocation, while a user may accept the default, customize the allocation, or exit. Larger allocations can improve accuracy but increase token cost and latency. We model this interaction as a Stacke...