arXiv Computation and Language By Sheng Liang, Yongyue Zhang, Nathanael Brian, Hang Lv, Hao Wang, Chen Zhang, Yong Liu

AsymSpec: Context-Asymmetric Speculative Decoding for Agentic LLMs

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arXiv:2608. 26004v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic LLM pipelines face escalating inference costs as context accumulates across retrieval, tool use, and multi-turn interactions.

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