Benefit-Targeted Routing and Bounded Revision for LLM-Based Evidence Screening in Manufacturing Supplier Discovery

Overview & Synopsis

An evidence-review system must allocate additional model judgments and control their use. We study these software decisions on 6,164 frozen manufacturing source-task pairs. Benefit-targeted routing learns recovered agreement minus newly introduced disagreement. On the original 300-case test, 60 consultations yield 202/231 agreements with two human references versus 189/218 for a logistic-risk router. An additional 300 cases were independently annotated twice using equal frozen evidence. Without retraining the historical policies, the corresponding counts are 164/190 versus 163/193; the differences do not resolve an advantage. Strict scalar-Ridge controls share preprocessing, regularization and fitting, and remain inconclusive. Quotation and requested-state replacement gates retain rejected cases and budget costs; their joint gate rejects one original and two additional consultations without changing primary outcomes. Evidence ablations, fusion and bounded updates supply further controls. A completed 200-pair identity audit yields 97.45 percent weighted merge precision after eight author adjudications. This audits a provisional map, while prospective company-disjoint performance remains untested.