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The Format Tax

Different output formatting requirements impose measurable computational overhead on language models, creating a "format tax" that reduces token efficiency and increases inference cost.

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: arXiv CS.CL (Computation & Language)BY sys://pipeline

Different output formatting requirements impose measurable computational overhead on language models, creating a "format tax" that reduces token efficiency and increases inference cost.

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