arXiv cs.AIAugust 18, 2026
Pricing the Risk of Runtime Compression: Anytime-Valid Admission and a Served-Output Law for Compressed Serving State
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arXiv:2608.15810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Runtime compression of serving state trades quality for capacity with no priced guarantee: systems adapt precision on load signals with no soundness statement, and certified approaches budget request-level risk by a union bound over a pre-declared event count. We show the union budget exhausts on every long request in a production serving stack (100% of requests), and replace it with an anytime-valid, physically accounted ledger whose bound holds a