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BAVT: Budget-Aware Value Tree Cuts Wasted Tool Calls.

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Models multi-hop agent reasoning as a dynamic search tree, transitioning from exploration to exploitation as token budget depletes. Includes formal convergence proof. Directly applicable to any agent loop burning tokens on redundant calls. arXiv 2603.12634

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