Inference serving systems must balance throughput and latency under bursty, heterogeneous workloads, yet the industry standard remains static batching policies that require manual tuning and cannot adapt to shifting traffic. We investigate whether reinforcement learning (RL) can learn adaptive batching and routing policies that outperform these heuristics, training REINFORCE and PPO agents on a discrete-event simulator validated against queuing theory and production traces (Azure Functions, BurstGPT).
arXiv:2606. 11440v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing multi-agent LLM orchestration methods, ranging from brute-force ensembles to learned routers, select models and topologies based on task and model features.
By Ahasan Kabir, Jiaqi Xue, Mengxin Zheng, Qian Lou
arXiv:2606. 03077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard post-training paradigm for large language models (LLMs), extending beyond preference alignment to complex reasoning and multi-turn agentic behaviors.
By Kaiwen Chen, Xin Tan, Jingzong Li, Hong Xu
arXiv:2606. 00946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficiently serving large language model (LLM) inference tasks is crucial both for user-perceived latency such as time-to-first-token (TTFT) and for GPU utilization.
By Gangmuk Lim, Wanyu Zhao, Brighten Godfrey, Jiaxin Shan, Le Xu, Liguang Xie
arXiv:2512. 22560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) trains LLMs through multi-turn interactions with environments, producing workloads that mix compute-bound prefill, bandwidth-bound decoding, CPU-heavy environment execution, and bursty reward evaluation.
By Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Tianyuan Wu, Shaopan Xiong, Weixun Wang, Dakai An, Lunxi Cao, Dilxat Muhtar, Zichen Liu, Haizhou Zhao, Ju Huang, Siran Yang, Yongbin Li, Wenbo Su, Jiamang Wang, Lin Qu, Bo Zheng, Wei Wang
The paper proposes a deployment‑focused framework for deadline‑constrained network control, introducing the Effective Congestion (EC) metric family and Uniform Path Grouping (UPG) heuristic to better capture traffic urgency and balance load. It integrates these with a Multi‑Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning architecture (MADRL EC (p*)) that combines a distributed scheduler and a centralized RL router. A unified training objective merges live‑reward, pre‑collected‑reward, and policy‑imitation terms, leading to the Model‑Guided Annealed Reinforcement Learning (MGA‑RL) protocol built on DDPG, which generalizes offline‑to‑online learning for demonstration‑driven training.
By Vincenzo Norman Vitale, Mohammad Solki, Antonia Maria Tulino, Andreas F. Molisch, Jaime Llorca
DART-FL is a multitask federated learning framework designed for edge devices that must balance online inference and model training under limited resources. It dynamically allocates resources between inference and training based on current inference backlog and service capacity, then distributes remaining training capacity among tasks using a queue‑aware scheduler that adjusts loss weights. Experiments on image classification datasets with synthetic and real workloads show that DART‑FL adapts to bursty inference demand, improving accuracy for high‑demand tasks while preserving overall multitask performance.
By Yiming Xie, Pinrui Yu, Geng Yuan, Xue Lin, Ningfang Mi
arXiv:2606. 27743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) inference is typically deployed under a static resource assumption, where models execute a fixed computational graph regardless of the runtime environment.
By Yuhang Chen, Jinhao Duan, Ruichen Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Xiaohan Wei, Yunchen Pu, Fei Tian, Chonglin Sun, Parish Aggarwal, Frank Shyu, Luke Simon, Sandeep Pandey, Tianlong Chen, Xi Liu
arXiv:2609.24456v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Distributed reinforcement learning (RL) scales training by parallelizing actors and learners around an Experience Buffer. As RL workloads grow, howev...
By Sitong Zhang, Tuo Shi, Mario Di Francesco, Zeke Wang, Bo Zhao
arXiv:2608. 06025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In simulation-in-the-loop decision-making systems, reinforcement learning (RL) inference is often constrained by simulator-side execution overhead, where workloads are highly dynamic and sensitive to runtime thread configurations.
By Jiming Su, Hantao Hua, Lujia Yin, Yiping Yao, Feng Zhu
arXiv:2609.37085v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Data-intensive services in the Computing Continuum must balance analytics quality, resource usage, and cost across heterogeneous nodes with limited a...
By Javier Mateos-Bravo, Sergio Laso, Juan Luis Herrera, Ilir Murturi, Pantelis Frangoudis, Schahram Dustdar
arXiv:2608.22788v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large-scale rollouts have become a core component of modern LLM systems, spanning reinforcement learning (RL) post-training, on-policy distillation (OP...
By Tianqi Xu, Lu Lv, Haoyang Huang, Wenjie Huang, Zhanming Shen, Yuhao Shen, Baolin Zhang, Xinyi Hu, Shuang Ge, Jun Dai, Tianyu Liu, Suorong Yang, Zhikai Li, Ye Bai, Jun Zhang, Lei Chen, Yue Li, Mingchen Wan