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Due to long generations, large language model (LLM) math reasoning demands significant computational resources and time. While many existing efficient inference methods have been developed with excellent performance preservation on language…

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Third-party skills are becoming the package ecosystem for LLM agents. They package natural-language instructions, helper scripts, templates, documents, and service configuration into reusable workflows. This makes skills useful, but it also…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Haomin Zhuang , Hanwen Xing , Yujun Zhou , Yuchen Ma , Yue Huang , Yili Shen , Yufei Han , Xiangliang Zhang

As LLM agents are increasingly deployed with large libraries of reusable skills, selecting the right skill for a user request has become a critical systems challenge. In small libraries, users may invoke skills explicitly by name, but this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hongcheol Cho , Ryangkyung Kang , Youngeun Kim

LLM agents increasingly operate through multi-turn tool use and environment interaction, where safety risks often emerge from intermediate steps long before they surface in the final outcome. Reactive auditing is therefore insufficient:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Jiaqian Li , Yanshu Li , Boxuan Zhang , Ruixiang Tang , Kuan-Hao Huang

Structured network pruning excels non-structured methods because they can take advantage of the thriving developed parallel computing techniques. In this paper, we propose a new structured pruning method. Firstly, to create more structured…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Bojue Wang , Chunmei Ma , Bin Liu , Nianbo Liu , Jinqi Zhu

Long-horizon tool-using tasks sometimes benefit from revisiting earlier subtasks for recovery and exploration, but added multi-agent workflow flexibility can also introduce coordination overhead and substantial inference cost. We study…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Luay Gharzeddine , Samer Saab

LLM-agent training pipelines routinely discard failed trajectories even though GPT-4o achieves only 14-20% on WebArena and below 55% pass@1 on ToolBench; even specialised systems at 50-65% leave the majority of trajectories unused. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Liang Ding

Recent advancements in Large Language Model (LLM) agents have enabled complex multi-turn agentic tasks requiring extensive tool calling, where conversations can span dozens of API calls with increasingly large context windows. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Elias Lumer , Faheem Nizar , Akshaya Jangiti , Kevin Frank , Anmol Gulati , Mandar Phadate , Vamse Kumar Subbiah

Introducing sparsity in a neural network has been an efficient way to reduce its complexity while keeping its performance almost intact. Most of the time, sparsity is introduced using a three-stage pipeline: 1) train the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Nathan Hubens , Matei Mancas , Bernard Gosselin , Marius Preda , Titus Zaharia

LLM-powered agents are emerging as a dominant paradigm for autonomous task solving. Unlike standard inference workloads, agents operate in a strictly serial "LLM-tool" loop, where the LLM must wait for external tool execution at every step.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Yifan Sui , Han Zhao , Rui Ma , Zhiyuan He , Hao Wang , Jianxun Li , Yuqing Yang

Skills are a promising way to improve LLM agent capabilities without retraining, while keeping the added procedure reusable and controllable. However, high-quality skills are still largely written by hand. We introduce SkillGen, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yuchen Ma , Yue Huang , Han Bao , Haomin Zhuang , Swadheen Shukla , Michel Galley , Xiangliang Zhang , Stefan Feuerriegel

Recent progress in large language models (LLMs) has advanced automatic code generation, yet most approaches rely on direct, single-step translation from problem descriptions to code, disregarding structured software engineering practices.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Xing Xing , Wei Wang , Lipeng Ma , Weidong Yang , Junjie Zheng

Machine unlearning is the process of efficiently removing the influence of a training data instance from a trained machine learning model without retraining it from scratch. A popular subclass of unlearning approaches is exact machine…

LLM-driven web agents operating through continuous inference loops -- repeatedly querying a model to evaluate browser state and select actions -- exhibit a fundamental scalability constraint for repetitive tasks. We characterize this as the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jagadeesh Chundru

Recently, Sharma et al. suggested a method called Layer-SElective-Rank reduction (LASER) which demonstrated that pruning high-order components of carefully chosen LLM's weight matrices can boost downstream accuracy -- without any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shiva Sreeram , Alaa Maalouf , Pratyusha Sharma , Daniela Rus

Tool-augmented LLMs are increasingly deployed as agents that interleave natural-language reasoning with executable Python actions, as in CodeAct-style frameworks. In deployment, these agents rely on runtime state that persists across steps.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Victor May , Aaditya Salgarkar , Yishan Wang , Diganta Misra , Huu Nguyen

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) show that extending the length of reasoning chains significantly improves performance on complex tasks. While revealing these reasoning traces helps users better follow, verify, and learn from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jiayu Ding , Lei Cui , Li Dong , Nanning Zheng , Furu Wei

Third-party skills extend LLM agents with powerful capabilities but often handle sensitive credentials in privileged environments, making leakage risks poorly understood. We present the first large-scale empirical study of this problem,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Zhihao Chen , Ying Zhang , Yi Liu , Gelei Deng , Yuekang Li , Yanjun Zhang , Jianting Ning , Leo Yu Zhang , Lei Ma , Zhiqiang Li

As LLM agents scale to long-horizon, multi-session deployments, efficiently managing accumulated experience becomes a critical bottleneck. Agent memory systems and agent skill discovery both address this challenge -- extracting reusable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Xing Zhang , Guanghui Wang , Yanwei Cui , Wei Qiu , Ziyuan Li , Bing Zhu , Peiyang He

Training high-performing Small Language Models (SLMs) remains costly, even with knowledge distillation and pruning from larger teacher models. Existing work often faces three key challenges: (1) information loss from hard pruning, (2)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jitai Hao , Qiang Huang , Hao Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Zhaochun Ren , Jun Yu