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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

University lab · Research lab · Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a public research university with a land-grant mission, founded in 1867 and governed by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Its AI research groups include U Lab, which maintains LLMRouter, an open-source library for routing requests among large language models.1235Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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Public university within the University of Illinois System, which has universities in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. The system is governed by a Board of Trustees whose voting members include trustees appointed by the governor of Illinois for six-year terms.12
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Urbana-Champaign, Illinois21
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18671
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Research

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This catalog assesses openness per artifact, not for the university as a whole. LLMRouter's source code is published under the MIT License.5Fact reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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  • U Lab, a research group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, publishes its code in the ulab-uiuc GitHub organization. Its repositories include LLMRouter, ResearchTown, and MultiAgentBench (MARBLE), which address LLM routing and multi-agent LLM systems.36
  • LLMRouter is a library that selects which large language model should answer each query, with more than 16 routing methods, a command-line interface, and a data-generation pipeline. It is released under the MIT License with copyright held by U Lab @UIUC. Its project page lists authors from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign together with collaborators from the University of Maryland, Nanyang Technological University, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois Chicago.456

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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign describes itself as a public research university with a land-grant mission. The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, most of whose voting members are appointed by the governor of Illinois, governs the university system, which has a location in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.12

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  1. 1.
    University of Illinois | Top-Ranked Public University (About) (external site: illinois.edu)

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  2. 2.
    Home - Board of Trustees (external site: bot.uillinois.edu)

    Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois · Official page · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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    U Lab @UIUC (GitHub organization) (external site: github.com)

    U Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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    ulab-uiuc/LLMRouter (GitHub repository and README) (external site: github.com)

    U Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Repository · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  5. 5.
    LLMRouter LICENSE (MIT License) (external site: raw.githubusercontent.com)

    U Lab @UIUC · License · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

  6. 6.
    LLMRouter project page (external site: ulab-uiuc.github.io)

    U Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Documentation · accessed Oct 1, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 1, 2026

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