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Papers & Talks

Research, talks, and position papers from the vLLM Semantic Router project.

Research Publications

2026Paper

vLLM Semantic Router: Signal Driven Decision Routing for Mixture-of-Modality Models

vLLM Semantic Router Team · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

The Workload-Router-Pool Architecture for LLM Inference Optimization: A Vision Paper from the vLLM Semantic Router Project

Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Bowei He, Fuyuan Lyu, Yankai Chen, Xue Liu, Yuhan Liu, Junchen Jiang · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

Visual Confused Deputy: Exploiting and Defending Perception Failures in Computer-Using Agents

Xunzhuo Liu, Bowei He, Xue Liu, Andy Luo, Haichen Zhang, Huamin Chen · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

Outcome-Aware Tool Selection for Semantic Routers: Latency-Constrained Learning Without LLM Inference

Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Junchen Jiang, Bowei He, Xue Liu · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

Adaptive Vision-Language Model Routing for Computer Use Agents

Xunzhuo Liu, Bowei He, Xue Liu, Andy Luo, Haichen Zhang, Huamin Chen · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

98× Faster LLM Routing Without a Dedicated GPU: Flash Attention, Prompt Compression, and Near-Streaming for the vLLM Semantic Router

Xunzhuo Liu, Bowei He, Xue Liu, Andy Luo, Haichen Zhang, Huamin Chen · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

inference-fleet-sim: A Queueing-Theory-Grounded Fleet Capacity Planner for LLM Inference

Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Yuhan Liu, Junchen Jiang, Bowei He, Xue Liu · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

FleetOpt: Analytical Fleet Provisioning for LLM Inference with Compress-and-Route as Implementation Mechanism

Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Yuhan Liu, Junchen Jiang, Bowei He, Xue Liu · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

The 1/W Law: An Analytical Study of Context-Length Routing Topology and GPU Generation Gains for LLM Inference Energy Efficiency

Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Yuhan Liu, Junchen Jiang, Bowei He, Xue Liu · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

Conflict-Free Policy Languages for Probabilistic ML Predicates: A Framework and Case Study with the Semantic Router DSL

Xunzhuo Liu, Hao Wu, Huamin Chen, Bowei He, Xue Liu · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

From Inference Routing to Agent Orchestration: Declarative Policy Compilation with Cross-Layer Verification

Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Bowei He, Xue Liu · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

Knowledge Access Beats Model Size: Memory Augmented Routing for Persistent AI Agents

Xunzhuo Liu, Bowei He, Xue Liu, Andy Luo, Haichen Zhang, Huamin Chen · arXiv Technical Report

2026Paper

Fast and Faithful: Real-Time Verification for Long-Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems

Xunzhuo Liu, Bowei He, Xue Liu, Haichen Zhang, Huamin Chen · SIGIR 2026 Industry Track

2026Paper

Token-Budget-Aware Pool Routing for Cost-Efficient LLM Inference

Huamin Chen, Xunzhuo Liu, Junchen Jiang, Bowei He, Xue Liu · arXiv Technical Report

2025Paper

When to Reason: Semantic Router for vLLM

Chen Wang, Xunzhuo Liu, Yuhan Liu, Yue Zhu, Xiangxi Mo, Junchen Jiang, Huamin Chen · NeurIPS - MLForSys

2025Paper

Category-Aware Semantic Caching for Heterogeneous LLM Workloads

Chen Wang, Xunzhuo Liu, Yue Zhu, Alaa Youssef, Priya Nagpurkar, Huamin Chen

2025Paper

Semantic Inference Routing Protocol (SIRP)

Huamin Chen, Luay Jalil · Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

2025Paper

Multi-Provider Extensions for Agentic AI Inference APIs

H. Chen, L. Jalil, N. Cocker · Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) - Network Management Research Group

Conference Presentations

2025Talk

Intelligent LLM Routing: A New Paradigm for Multi-Model AI Orchestration in Kubernetes

Chen Wang, Huamin Chen · KubeCon NA 2025

2025Talk

vLLM Semantic Router: Unlock the Power of Intelligent Routing

Xunzhuo Liu · vLLM Meetup Beijing