CascadeLedger: Counterfactual Auditing of Information and Resource Integrity in LLM Cascades

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Miaobo Hu, Shuhao Hu, Xiaobo Guo, Xin Wang, Bokun Wang, Daren Zha, Jun Xiao)

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arXiv:2610.20668v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce CascadeLedger, a counterfactual execution-audit framework for budgeted language-model cascades. The protocol enforces call-before-read semantics, binds successful reads to service and cache identities, records availability and component-wise budget transitions, and freezes the event trace before any target or task scorer is joined.

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