arXiv Machine Learning

AOSpec: Action and Observation Co-Speculation for Low-Latency Agent Serving

arXiv:2608. 00881v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly act through stateful tools, yet model generation and environment execution remain serialized at every step.

arXiv AI
Aug 18

From LLM Inference to Agentic Workloads: Characterization and Implications for Serving Systems

arXiv:2608. 15127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic applications are shifting AI serving from isolated model inference to long-running workloads in which LLMs coordinate tools, environments, and persistent state.

By Chaokun Chang, Yukun Zhou, Kaihua Fu, Dakai An, Tianyu Feng, Hanfeng Lu, Sheng Yao, Pu Guo, Yinghao Yu, Yizhou Shan, Bo Li, Binhang Yuan, Wei Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 4

Speculative Macro Commit for Faster Tool-Using Agents

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
arXiv AI
Jul 14

AgentAbstain: Do LLM Agents Know When Not to Act?

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.

By Xun Liu, Yi Evie Zhang, Vira Kasprova, Parisa Rabbani, Pardis Sadat Zahraei, Tianyu Zhang, Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny, Varun Chandrasekaran
arXiv AI
3d ago

Mid-Harness: Scaling Actions Between Model and Harness for Terminal Agents

Mid‑Harness proposes a test‑time compute strategy that samples and verifies candidate actions before execution, keeping the underlying generator and harness unchanged. Experiments show that with a strong verifier, sampling more actions significantly boosts success rates—e.g., a GPT‑5.6 verifier raises Pass@1 from 50.00 % to 68.03 % on TerminalBench‑Lite using eight samples. The approach also improves performance across various models, benchmarks, and harnesses, demonstrating that action scaling is a promising target for enhancing terminal agent reliability.

By Minki Kang, Ryo Hachiuma, Shaokun Zhang, Subhashree Radhakrishnan, Yonggan Fu, Jindong Jiang, Mingjie Liu, Ehsan Hosseini-Asl, Yi Dong, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang, Byung-Kwan Lee
arXiv AI
Jul 28

SpecBox: Speculative Sandbox Scheduling for Efficient LLM Agent Serving

arXiv:2607. 23933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As LLM agents increasingly rely on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to invoke isolated external sandboxes, disaggregated sandbox deployment introduces a fundamental tension between resource utilization and interactive tail latency.

By Yihui Zhang (Beihang University), Tianyu Wo (Beihang University), Jinghao Wang (Beihang University), Xiaoyang Sun (University of Leeds), Menghao Zhang (Beihang University), Cangzhou Yuan (Beihang University), Li Li (Beihang University), Chunming Hu (Beihang University), Albert Y. Zomaya (The University of Sydney), Renyu Yang (Beihang University)