arXiv AI

Scepsy: Serving Agentic Workflows Using Aggregate LLM Pipelines

Scepsy is a serving system designed to efficiently schedule arbitrary multi‑LLM agentic workflows on GPU clusters. It leverages the observation that each LLM’s share of execution time remains relatively stable across requests, profiling LLMs under various parallelism levels to build an Aggregate LLM Pipeline that predicts throughput and latency. Using this predictor, Scepsy searches for optimal GPU allocations—balancing fractional GPU shares, tensor parallelism, and replica counts—and then heuristically places them on the cluster to reduce fragmentation and honor network topology, achieving up to 2.5× higher throughput and 1.0–3.3× lower latency compared to baseline approaches.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

TOPAS: Workflow-Aware Prefix-State Scheduling for Multi-Agent LLM Serving

TOPAS is a Task‑Oriented Prefix‑Aware Scheduler designed for multi‑agent large language model serving. It jointly decides which agent prefixes to retain in a shared key‑value cache and which requests to schedule, balancing the reduction of each task’s longest remaining service path against the benefit of downstream prefix reuse while accounting for movement and preemption costs. Experiments on synthetic DAGs and MetaGPT software‑development workflows show that TOPAS can reduce mean and p99 job completion times by up to 39.8%/49.4% and 22.0%/26.6% respectively compared to the best baselines.

By Hongqiu Ni, Han Tian, Chi Zhang, Guopeng Li, Haisheng Tan
arXiv AI
Sep 10

Diamond Agent: Agentic Control of Federated HPC Resources as a Service

arXiv:2609.06181v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficiently aggregating and orchestrating computing power across heterogeneous clusters for HPC workflows faces four practical challenges: preserving...

By Haotian Xie, Junlin Chen, Mingkai Zheng, Yifan Zhu, Minu Mathew, Max Burnette, Yadu Babuji, Volodymyr Kindratenko, Shivaram Venkataraman, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster, Zhao Zhang
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 Machine Learning
Aug 10

Cascade: Exploiting SLO-Aware latency budget for fair and high goodput LLM inference serving

arXiv:2608. 06557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The reasoning and agentic capabilities of large language models have expanded the range of applications they support, from short interactive exchanges to long, compute-heavy requests.

By Muhammad Adnan, Rohan Mahapatra, Prashant J. Nair, Daniel Berger, Pantea Zardoshti, Rodrigo Fonseca, Esha Choukse