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AI agents are increasingly deployed in complex, interactive environments, yet their runtime remains a major bottleneck for training, evaluation, and real-world use. Typical agent behavior unfolds sequentially, with each action requiring an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Naimeng Ye , Arnav Ahuja , Georgios Liargkovas , Yunan Lu , Kostis Kaffes , Tianyi Peng

Despite their remarkable success in complex tasks propelling widespread adoption, large language-model-based agents still face critical deployment challenges due to prohibitive latency and inference costs. While recent work has explored…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yilin Guan , Qingfeng Lan , Sun Fei , Dujian Ding , Devang Acharya , Chi Wang , William Yang Wang , Wenyue Hua

Speculative decoding is widely adopted to reduce latency in large language model (LLM) inference by leveraging smaller draft models capable of handling diverse user tasks. However, emerging AI applications, such as LLM-based agents, present…

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Plan Recognition algorithms require to recognize a complete hierarchy explaining the agent's actions and goals. While the output of such algorithms is informative to the recognizer, the cost of its calculation is high in run-time, space,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Retuh Mirsky , Ya'akov , Gal

LLM-based search agents achieve strong performance but suffer from severe latency, as each step requires serialized LLM reasoning followed by action of tool execution. We revisit this bottleneck through the lens of speculation. While…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zixiao Huang , Wen Zeng , Tianyu Fu , Tengxuan Liu , Yizhou Sun , Ke Hong , Xinhao Yang , Chengchun Liu , Yan Li , Quanlu Zhang , Guohao Dai , Zhenhua Zhu , Yu Wang

To reduce the computation cost and the energy consumption in large language models (LLM), skimming-based acceleration dynamically drops unimportant tokens of the input sequence progressively along layers of the LLM while preserving the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Shengyao Zhang , Mi Zhang , Xudong Pan , Min Yang

Recently, skills have been widely adopted in large language model (LLM)-based agent systems across various domains. In existing frameworks, skills are typically injected into the agent reasoning loop as contextual guidance once matched to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Duling Xu , Zheng Chen , Zaifeng Pan , Jiawei Guan , Dong Dong , Jialin Li , Bangzheng Pu

LLM-powered agents are beginning to automate user's tasks across the open web, often with access to user resources such as emails and calendars. Unlike standard LLMs answering questions in a controlled ChatBot setting, web agents act "in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jaechul Roh , Eugene Bagdasarian , Hamed Haddadi , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi

Effective decision-making in Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for handling intricate tasks. However, existing approaches prioritize performance but often overlook the balance between effectiveness and computational cost. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiawei Gu , Shangsong Liang

Long-horizon agentic search requires iteratively exploring the web over long trajectories and synthesizing information across many sources, and is the foundation for enabling powerful applications like deep research systems. In this work,…

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Modern programming frameworks come with large libraries, with diverse applications such as for matching regular expressions, parsing XML files and sending email. Programmers often use search engines such as Google and Bing to learn about…

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Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex tasks. However, manually designing optimal communication topologies is labor-intensive, while automated expansion methods often result…

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Phishing detection is a critical cybersecurity task that involves the identification and neutralization of fraudulent attempts to obtain sensitive information, thereby safeguarding individuals and organizations from data breaches and…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at code-related tasks but often struggle in realistic software repositories, where project-specific APIs and cross-file dependencies are crucial. Retrieval-augmented methods mitigate this by injecting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 George Ma , Anurag Koul , Qi Chen , Yawen Wu , Sachit Kuhar , Yu Yu , Aritra Sengupta , Varun Kumar , Murali Krishna Ramanathan

Automated agentic workflow design currently relies on per-task iterative search, which is computationally prohibitive and fails to reuse structural knowledge across tasks. We observe that optimized workflows converge to a small family of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shiyi Du , Jiayuan Liu , Weihua Du , Yue Huang , Jiayi Li , Yingtao Luo , Xiangliang Zhang , Vincent Conitzer , Carl Kingsford

Autonomous web agents powered by large language models (LLMs) show strong potential for performing goal-oriented tasks such as information retrieval, report generation, and online transactions. These agents mark a key step toward practical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shiqi He , Yue Cui , Xinyu Ma , Yaliang Li , Bolin Ding , Mosharaf Chowdhury

Large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated strong capabilities across diverse domains, yet automated agent design remains a significant challenge. Current automated agent design approaches are often constrained by limited search…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Yu Li , Lehui Li , Zhihao Wu , Qingmin Liao , Jianye Hao , Kun Shao , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

Inspired by the principles of speed reading, we introduce Skim-RNN, a recurrent neural network (RNN) that dynamically decides to update only a small fraction of the hidden state for relatively unimportant input tokens. Skim-RNN gives…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Minjoon Seo , Sewon Min , Ali Farhadi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi

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

Recent advances in LLM-based Text-to-SQL have achieved remarkable gains on public benchmarks such as BIRD and Spider. Yet, these systems struggle to scale in realistic enterprise settings with large, complex schemas, diverse SQL dialects,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Asim Biswal , Chuan Lei , Xiao Qin , Aodong Li , Balakrishnan Narayanaswamy , Tim Kraska
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