arXiv AI
Sep 7

GLOW: Graph-Language Co-Encoding for Agentic Workflow Performance Prediction

GLOW is a framework that predicts the performance of Agentic Workflows by combining Graph Neural Networks with a graph-oriented Large Language Model. It extracts topology-aware semantic representations from workflow descriptions and fuses them with structural representations via a Transformer-based module, using contrastive learning to enhance discriminative power. Experiments on the FLORA-Bench benchmark show GLOW surpasses existing baselines in accuracy and ranking, and when used in the AFLOW generation system, it cuts optimization time by 98.7% with minimal loss in score.

By Wei Guan, Jian Cao, Jinyu Cai, Qiqi Cai, Jianqi Gao, See-Kiong Ng
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Where Should Agents Live? Energy-Memory Characterization of Agentic AI for the Edge-Cloud Continuum

The paper introduces agentic-eCAL, an extension of the Energy Cost of AI Lifecycle metric to evaluate multi‑agent AI workflows across the edge‑cloud continuum. By combining a two‑rate energy model with OSI‑layer transport analysis, the authors quantify that inter‑agent text transfer accounts for only 0.25% of total workflow energy, highlighting that the main energy cost lies in additional inference and context processing triggered by communication. The study uses extensive GPU benchmarks on NVIDIA A100/H100 with 16 open‑weight models and 8 orchestration topologies to validate the metric and explore placement implications.

By Carolina Fortuna, Vid Han\v{z}el, Tim Strnad, Bla\v{z} Bertalani\v{c}