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We introduce Orla, a library for constructing and running LLM-based agentic systems. Modern agentic applications consist of workflows that combine multiple LLM inference steps, tool calls, and heterogeneous infrastructure. Today, developers…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rana Shahout , Hayder Tirmazi , Minlan Yu , Michael Mitzenmacher

Agentic workflows are composed of sequences of interdependent Large Language Model (LLM) calls, and they have become a dominant workload in modern AI systems. These workflows exhibit extensive redundancy from overlapping prompts and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Noppanat Wadlom , Junyi Shen , Yao Lu

Agentic workflows carry out complex tasks by orchestrating multiple large language models (LLMs) and tools. Serving such workflows at a target throughput with low latency is challenging because they can be defined using arbitrary agentic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Marcel Wagenländer , Otto White , Britannio Jarrett , Pedro Silvestre , Yanda Tao , Guo Li , Huanzhou Zhu , Llúis Vilanova , Peter Pietzuch

Large language models are increasingly deployed as complex agentic systems that scale with task complexity. While prior work has extensively explored model- and system-level scaling, algorithm- and task-level scaling remain largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zizhang Luo , Yuhao Luo , Youwei Xiao , Yansong Xu , Runlin Guo , Yun Liang

Progress in scientific discovery is rarely the result of a single "Eureka" moment, but is rather the product of hundreds of scientists incrementally working together toward a common goal. While existing agent workflows are capable of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Samuel Schmidgall , Michael Moor

Contemporary multi-agent systems encounter persistent challenges in cross-platform interoperability, dynamic task scheduling, and efficient resource sharing. Agents with heterogeneous implementations often lack standardized interfaces;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yuyang Cheng , Yumiao Xu , Chaojia Yu , Yong Zhao

Agentic workflows commonly coordinate multiple models and tools with complex control logic. They are quickly becoming the dominant paradigm for AI applications. However, serving them remains inefficient with today's frameworks. The key…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Gohar Irfan Chaudhry , Esha Choukse , Haoran Qiu , Íñigo Goiri , Rodrigo Fonseca , Adam Belay , Ricardo Bianchini

Serverless computing allows developers to break their code into small components, known as functions, which are automatically managed by a service provider. Being lightweight and modular, serverless functions have been increasingly employed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Luciano Baresi , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Inacio Ticongolo

Despite advances in AI for contact centers, customer experience (CX) continues to suffer from high average handling time (AHT), low first-call resolution, and poor customer satisfaction (CSAT). A key driver is the cognitive load on agents,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Garima Agrawal , Riccardo De Maria , Kiran Davuluri , Daniele Spera , Charlie Read , Cosimo Spera , Jack Garrett , Don Miller

Nowadays a wide range of applications is constrained by low-latency requirements that cloud infrastructures cannot meet. Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) has been proposed as the reference architecture for executing applications closer to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Luciano Baresi , Davide Yi Xian Hu , Giovanni Quattrocchi , Luca Terracciano

Multi-agent LLM systems have become the dominant production workload, but the serving stack was not built for them. The agent framework above knows agent identities, role, schemas, and dispatch structure but never sees an engine-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Rui Zhang , Chaeeun Kim , Liting Hu

Agentic workflows have emerged as a powerful paradigm for solving complex, multi-stage tasks, but serving them at scale is computationally expensive given the many LLM inferences that each request must pass through. Configuration selection,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yinwei Dai , Zhuofu Chen , Anand Iyer , Ravi Netravali

AI agents execute tens to hundreds of chained LLM calls per task, yet GPU schedulers treat each call as independent, discarding gigabytes of intermediate state between steps and inflating end-to-end latency by 3-8x. We argue that this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Dongxin Guo , Jikun Wu , Siu Ming Yiu

The main objective of this paper is to provide an optimized solution and algorithm for the execution of a workflow process by ensuring the data consistency, correctness, completeness among various tasks involved. The solution proposed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-07-03 Sohail Safdar , Jamil Ahmad , Shaftab Ahmed , M. Tayyab Asghar , Saqib Saeed

We envision a new era of AI, termed agentic organization, where agents solve complex problems by working collaboratively and concurrently, enabling outcomes beyond individual intelligence. To realize this vision, we introduce asynchronous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zewen Chi , Li Dong , Qingxiu Dong , Yaru Hao , Xun Wu , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei

The dynamic adaptation of resource levels enables the system to enhance energy efficiency while maintaining the necessary computational resources, particularly in scenarios where workloads fluctuate significantly over time. The proposed…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Said Muhammad , Lahlou Laaziz , Nadjia Kara , Phat Tan Nguyen , Timothy Murphy

The Telex system is designed for sharing mutable data in a distributed environment, particularly for collaborative applications. Users operate on their local, persistent replica of shared documents; they can work disconnected and suffer no…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Lamia Benmouffok , Jean-Michel Busca , Joan Manuel Marquès , Marc Shapiro , Pierre Sutra , Georgios Tsoukalas

Serverless applications are typically composed of function workflows in which multiple short-lived functions are triggered to exchange data in response to events or state changes. Current serverless platforms coordinate and trigger…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Minchen Yu , Tingjia Cao , Wei Wang , Ruichuan Chen

Existing network stacks tackle performance and scalability aspects by relying on multiple receive queues. However, at software level, each queue is processed by a single thread, which prevents simultaneous work on the same queue and limits…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Marco Faltelli , Giacomo Belocchi , Francesco Quaglia , Giuseppe Bianchi

We introduce Context Kubernetes, an architecture for orchestrating enterprise knowledge in agentic AI systems, with a prototype implementation and eight experiments. The core observation is that delivering the right knowledge, to the right…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Charafeddine Mouzouni