arXiv:2607. 25816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents often spend substantial wall-clock time waiting for tool call results.
arXiv:2606. 00135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-calling is a central component of modern large language model (LLM) agents, equipping them with skills beyond their parametric knowledge.
arXiv:2608. 14624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems have emerged as an important deployment paradigm for AI services, where each user request is decomposed into a sequence of specialized agents.
The paper introduces the Agent-Editing World Model (AEWM), a new approach that models how reasoning and actions influence future task progress instead of simulating tool responses. AEWM includes an Action Judge that classifies decisions as Critical, Exploratory, or Noisy, and a State Revision mechanism that edits noisy reasoning–action continuations from the same observed history. The integrated system, EditAct, directly updates the underlying state during real execution, leading to significant performance gains across multiple benchmarks and agent backbones.
arXiv:2607. 03333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are becoming a common interface for research, coding, and question answering, yet their Thought-Action-Observation loop is often serial: the model reasons, emits a tool call, then idles the GPU until the result returns.
Speculative Macro Commit (SMC) is a runtime technique for tool‑using language‑model agents that separates an authoritative actor model from a faster speculative drafter model. The drafter predicts and executes future action chains on a snapshot, storing recurring multi‑action patterns in a macro library. When the actor’s next tool call aligns with a drafted action, SMC commits the pre‑executed steps, reducing latency by up to 18.59% on certain benchmarks while maintaining accuracy.
Speculative Macro Commit (SMC) is a runtime technique that speeds up tool‑using language‑model agents by having a fast speculative drafter model predict and execute future action chains on a separate environment snapshot. The drafter’s predictions are matched against a macro library of recurring multi‑action skeletons; when the authoritative actor’s next tool call aligns with the first drafted action, SMC commits the remaining pre‑executed steps to the official trajectory. Experiments with Qwen3.5 models show that SMC maintains overall accuracy while cutting latency by up to 18.6% on telecom benchmarks and 44.9% on AppWorld compared to sequential execution.
arXiv:2607. 12236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative execution accelerates LLM agents by using a smaller, cheaper model to predict and pre-launch the next step while the environment is idle.
arXiv:2607. 05174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language agents, i.
arXiv:2607. 10059v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent systems based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed for autonomous tasks, yet existing evaluations mostly focus on task success rather than whether agents know when to abstain.
arXiv:2606. 14211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLMs are increasingly deployed as agents that interact with external environments and observe feedback such as execution results, error messages, and tool outputs.
Agentick is a unified benchmark for sequential decision‑making agents that evaluates RL, LLM, VLM, hybrid, and human agents on 37 procedurally generated tasks across six capability categories, four difficulty levels, and five observation modalities via a single Gymnasium‑compatible interface. It includes a Coding API, oracle reference policies, pre‑built SFT datasets, a composable agent harness, and a live leaderboard. An evaluation of 27 configurations and over 90,000 episodes shows no single approach dominates, with GPT‑5 mini leading overall, PPO excelling in planning and multi‑agent tasks, and the reasoning harness boosting LLM performance by 3‑10×, while ASCII observations outperform natural language.
AgentServeSim is a simulation framework designed to model the execution of large language model (LLM) agent programs, capturing cross‑turn key‑value (KV) state retention, successor turn release, and scheduling decisions. Unlike existing simulators that operate on request streams, AgentServeSim treats the entire agent program as a single unit of execution, using a Program Control Block, Program Orchestrator, Retention Plane, and Dispatch Plane to emulate realistic serving dynamics. Validation against real vLLM deployments on two GPU platforms shows mean job completion time errors below 5.5%, and the simulator enables automated policy search that improves mean JCT by up to 2.8% over hand‑written policies. whyItMatters":"The simulator provides a realistic, CPU‑based tool for evaluating and optimizing LLM agent serving policies, achieving high fidelity to real deployments and enabling measurable performance gains."