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.
By Huajun Bai, Weiwei Lv, Huichuan Zheng, Youyou Lu, Jiwu Shu
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.
By Zeyu Liu, Souvik Kundu, Peter A. Beerel
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:2606. 31023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hard-constrained sequential decision systems have no certified way to spend the test-time compute of modern AI: executing the multi-step drafts of a learned policy or a frozen LLM forfeits the feasibility guarantee a trusted solver provides, while invoking the solver at every step forfeits the speed the AI offers.
By Chenyu Zhou, Qiliang Jiang, Shuning Wu, Xu Zhou
arXiv:2605. 20173v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Production LLM agents combine stochastic model outputs with deterministic software systems, yet the boundary between the two is rarely treated as a first-class architectural object.
By Vasundra Srinivasan
arXiv:2607. 17240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When does a committed intermediate stage in an LLM reasoning pipeline earn its cost?
By Honglin Li (ShanghaiTech University)
arXiv:2608. 02680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents repeatedly rediscover procedures they have already executed, producing traces that mix reusable structure with retries, exploration, accidental ordering, and repeated lookups.
By Salma El Yadouni (EPFL), Guanyi Li (Binome Technologies)
arXiv:2511. 18191v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series forecasting drives operational decisions under tight latency budgets, and autoregressive time series foundation models (TSFMs) increasingly deliver the most accurate forecasts.
By Pranav Subbaraman, Fang Sun, Jinxi Yu, Yue Yao, Huacong Tang, Xiao Luo, Yizhou Sun
arXiv:2606. 18967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a representative post-training paradigm for LLMs, enabling strong reasoning and agentic capabilities.
By Minseo Kim, Minjae Lee, Seunghyuk Oh, Kevin Galim, Donghoon Kim, Coleman Hooper, Harman Singh, Amir Gholami, Hyung Il Koo, Wonjun Kang
The paper introduces PACE (Policy‑Attested Contract Execution), a framework that sits between large‑language‑model (LLM) based autonomous AI agents and on‑chain DeFi operations. PACE defines typed transaction intents, a deterministic policy verifier, and signed Policy Decision Records (PDRs) that cryptographically bind an approved intent, policy, and simulation report to the exact on‑chain execution bytes, providing replay and expiration protection. In evaluations across 40 tasks and six baselines, PACE achieves zero unsafe executions and zero false positives, outperforming unguarded agents by a large margin.
By Rabimba Karanjai (Larry), Yang Lu (Larry), Richard Williamson (Larry), Hemanth Hm (Larry), Prakhar Mehrotra (Larry), Lei Xu (Larry), Weidong (Larry), Shi
The paper introduces a tail‑risk‑aware scheduling strategy for agentic LLM workflows that decouples readiness from immediate release of model turns. By jointly selecting which ready turn to release and controlling the amount of unfinished work kept in the queue, the method uses a mean‑CVaR objective to adapt to evolving tail risk and online turn‑work estimates. Experiments on real software‑engineering task traces show comparable performance to eager release under light load and a significant reduction in the 95th‑percentile workflow flow time, achieving up to a 3.5× speedup under contention.
By Bochao Feng, Jianjiang Li, Haojie Wang, Lin Qiao, Yinghui Li, Yukun Yan, Jidong Zhai
The paper introduces Speculative Uncertainty (SU), a technique that infers a failure likelihood for black‑box LLM agents by evaluating their generated token sequences with a lightweight draft model, without needing internal model details. SU extracts phase‑aware features from reasoning and action spans, calibrates them against verifiable outcomes, and produces a failure‑likelihood score usable by downstream policies. Applying a pre‑execution veto gate based on SU to software‑engineering agents such as Qwen3‑Coder‑480B and Claude 3.5 Sonnet reduced execution error rates by 6‑8 percentage points and token costs by 14‑19 %, while maintaining performance on out‑of‑distribution benchmarks and across different agent models.
By Konstantin Grotov, Valentin Malykh