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Routing user queries among a portfolio of language models is naturally cast as a contextual bandit, but the standard non-stationary bandit literature assumes drift bounds that are pessimistic for the model-routing setting where reward distributions drift slowly with model versions, prompt-mix changes, and tooling updates. We introduce DriftUCB, an algorithm that estimates the per-arm drift rate online via a sliding-window comparison and adapts the discount factor accordingly.

Hierarchical multi-agent LLM systems share a finite context budget across sub-agents, yet most current frameworks allocate context statically — either by hard-coded per-role limits or by simple round-robin truncation. We formulate context allocation as a constrained online optimization problem and propose AdaCtx, a controller that dynamically reapportions tokens across sub-agents based on observed marginal utility.

Static conformal calibration assumes exchangeable data and fails under distribution drift typical of deployed generative systems. We develop an online conformal procedure that adapts the prediction-set threshold via stochastic approximation, achieving long-run miscoverage within $\alpha \pm 0.

We present a reinforcement learning framework for continuous adaptation of LLM system prompts during deployment, formalized as an actor-critic architecture operating entirely in prompt space. Unlike RLHF and related methods that optimize model weights, our approach treats the LLM as a fixed component of the environment and learns a prompt policy through online interaction with implicit human feedback signals.