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@misc{bhardwaj2026servingfrontier,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {Disaggregated or Colocated? The Cost-Frontier of LLM Serving Under SLO Contracts.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/serving-frontier/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/serving-frontier/paper.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Research Paper #1 in the AI systems engineering wedge. Single author. Companion to Field Note #1 (The Inference Stack in 2026).}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026verifiercomposition,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {Calibration Drift Under Verifier Composition. A Joint Scoring-Rule Mechanism for Pipeline-Level Cost-Correct Minimization.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/verifier-composition/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/verifier-composition/paper.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Research Paper #2 in the verification-economics wedge. Single author. Companion to Research Paper #1 (Verifier Procurement) and Field Notes #2, #3.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026inferencetimefrontier,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {The Inference-Time Compute Frontier. A Cost-Correct Threshold for Training Versus Test-Time Allocation.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/inference-frontier/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/inference-frontier/paper.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Research Paper #2 in the inference-economics wedge. Single author. Companion to Field Notes #1–3.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026routingpremium,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {The Routing Premium. An Economic Threshold for Difficulty-Conditional Inference Compute.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/routing-premium/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/routing-premium/paper.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Research Paper #3 in the inference-economics wedge. Single author. Companion to Paper #2 (inference-frontier).}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026verifierprocurement,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {Verifier Procurement Under Unobservable Quality. A Scoring-Rule Mechanism for Cost-Correct Minimization.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/verifier-procurement/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/verifier-procurement/paper.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Research Paper #1 in the verification-economics wedge. Single author, defensible, reproducible. Companion to Field Notes #2 and #3.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026heterogeneousprocurement,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {The Heterogeneous-GPU Margin. Coral and the Multi-LLM Procurement Problem.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/heterogeneous-procurement/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/pdfs/heterogeneous-procurement.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Field Notes #6. Daily review of arXiv:2605.04357. Version 1.0.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026harvestingslack,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {Harvesting Serving Slack. ROSE and the Collapsed Train-Serve Boundary.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/harvesting-serving-slack/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/pdfs/harvesting-serving-slack.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Field Notes #7. Daily review of arXiv:2605.06534. Version 1.0.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026powercapillusion,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {The Power-Cap Illusion. SM Clock Locking and the Real Decode Lever.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/the-power-cap-illusion/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/pdfs/the-power-cap-illusion.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Field Notes #8. Daily review of arXiv:2605.11999. Version 1.0.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026verifiercurriculum,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {The Verifier as Curriculum. VHG and the Third Role.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/verifier-as-curriculum/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/pdfs/verifier-as-curriculum.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Field Notes #5. Daily review of arXiv:2605.06660. Version 1.0.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026structuralresidual,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {The Structural Residual Ceiling. AI Pre-Decoders for the Surface Code.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/the-structural-residual-ceiling/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/pdfs/the-structural-residual-ceiling.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Field Notes #4. Version 1.0.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026alphaasymmetry,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {The Alpha Asymmetry. Why Verifiers Can Be Smaller Than Generators.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/the-alpha-asymmetry/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/pdfs/the-alpha-asymmetry.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Field Notes #3.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026costofbeingright,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {The Cost of Being Right. Verification Economics in 2026.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/the-cost-of-being-right/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/pdfs/the-cost-of-being-right.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Field Notes #2. Version 1.0.}
}

@misc{bhardwaj2026inference,
  author       = {Bhardwaj, Manu},
  title        = {The Inference Stack in 2026.},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = {May},
  url          = {https://ifitsmanu.com/papers/the-inference-stack-2026/},
  howpublished = {\url{https://ifitsmanu.com/pdfs/the-inference-stack-2026.pdf}},
  orcid        = {0009-0000-8791-6190},
  note         = {Field Notes #1. Version 3.0.}
}