arXiv AI

CADOC: Cache-Aware Dynamic Object Context for Long-Horizon Agents

arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 21

Cache Engineering for Agents

The paper introduces cache engineering for large language model agents, enabling direct control over the active key-value cache without altering the trajectory or triggering costly re-prefilling. It defines cache operations such as drop and repos, formalizes their effects, and addresses the challenge of history-dependent cache states. The authors co-design a stateless AKV serving engine that manages stateful cache reuse, eviction, and restoration, achieving significant performance and cost improvements over traditional summarization methods.

By Tianyu Fu, Ruoxi Wang, Zihan Min, Zhongqi Ren, Zhihao Li, Tengxuan Liu, Shengxu Mu, Hanling Zhang, Yu Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Workload-Aware Caching for Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2607. 20495v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems decompose complex tasks into directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) of specialized agent executions, creating natural opportunities for caching intermediate results across queries.

By Anas Mohamed, Kaizan Haque, Azal Ahmad Khan, Chetan Sharma, Shuwen Ge, Ali Anwar
arXiv AI
Oct 15

Budgeted KV-Cache Repair for Evolving Contexts

arXiv:2610.17338v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model agents revise their working context as information becomes obsolete, but deleting text does not erase its influence on cached computatio...

By Han Yu, Wenhui Zhu, Jincheng Cao, Rui Cai, Yuanda Xu, Zhengze Zhou, Xiwen Chen, Hao Wang, Xuanzhao Dong, Han Shi, Menglin Zhou, Shayan Mohajer Hamidi, Lin Su, Mina Razghandi, Sayan Ghosh, Qing Lan, Rohit Jain, Alborz Geramifard
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

DTOC: Dynamic Tool Output Compression for Adaptive Context Management in AI Agents

The paper introduces Dynamic Tool Output Compression (DTOC), a framework that manages context in large‑language‑model agents by storing full tool outputs in external memory and inserting compact placeholders into the active context. DTOC treats context updates as explicit, reversible operations within the agent’s reasoning loop, allowing selective reconstruction of compressed outputs when needed. Experiments on the DeepSWE benchmark show that for responsive models such as Sonnet 4.6 and GPT‑5.4, DTOC reduces input tokens and agent steps while significantly improving solve rates and lowering cost per solved task, with ablation studies confirming the importance of reversibility for maintaining performance.

By Abhay Chaturvedi, Shreya Bhattacharya, Rashmika Gopalkrishnan, Peter van der Putten
arXiv AI
Oct 23

Learning What to Remember: Resource-Efficient Self-Improvement for Lifelong Agents

The paper introduces TokenWorth, a lightweight framework that learns the value of past experiences for self-improving agents operating under strict resource constraints. By using sparse execution feedback, TokenWorth guides both retrieval and memory management without updating the core model, enabling agents to adaptively reuse only the most beneficial experiences. Experiments on LifelongAgentBench show that TokenWorth outperforms existing lifelong-memory methods in task success while minimizing output tokens within the given budgets.

By Guannan Lai, Zi-Yang Bai, Jun-Peng Jiang, Han-Jia Ye