Speculative Macro Commit (SMC) is a runtime technique that speeds up tool‑using language‑model agents by having a fast speculative drafter model predict and execute future action chains on a separate environment snapshot. The drafter’s predictions are matched against a macro library of recurring multi‑action skeletons; when the authoritative actor’s next tool call aligns with the first drafted action, SMC commits the remaining pre‑executed steps to the official trajectory. Experiments with Qwen3.5 models show that SMC maintains overall accuracy while cutting latency by up to 18.6% on telecom benchmarks and 44.9% on AppWorld compared to sequential execution.
arXiv:2607. 03333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are becoming a common interface for research, coding, and question answering, yet their Thought-Action-Observation loop is often serial: the model reasons, emits a tool call, then idles the GPU until the result returns.
By Huajun Bai, Weiwei Lv, Huichuan Zheng, Youyou Lu, Jiwu Shu
arXiv:2609.38201v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Long-running tools can dominate coding-agent latency: compilers, test suites, and repository commands take seconds to minutes while the agent idles. Th...
By Jiangnan Yu, Ceyu Xu, Mengming Li, Shiyu Huang, Yiran Xia, Jian Weng, Hui Xue, Haohui Mai, Yuan Xie
arXiv:2607. 25816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents often spend substantial wall-clock time waiting for tool call results.
By Jiabao Ji, Yujian Liu, Li An, Rohit Jain, Gungor Polatkan, Siyu Zhu, Shiyu Chang
arXiv:2606. 07846v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-agent workflows chain model calls and tool invocations, and spend most of their wall-clock time waiting on upstream operations before downstream ones can start.
By Faisal Fareed
arXiv:2607. 12236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Speculative execution accelerates LLM agents by using a smaller, cheaper model to predict and pre-launch the next step while the environment is idle.
By Yu Li, Qinyuan Ye, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Jiaxin Zhang, Chien-Sheng Wu