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Multi-head Latent Attention (MLA) is an innovative architecture proposed by DeepSeek, designed to ensure efficient and economical inference by significantly compressing the Key-Value (KV) cache into a latent vector. Compared to MLA,…

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The agent--tool interaction loop is a critical attack surface for modern Large Language Model (LLM) agents. Existing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks typically function at the user-prompt or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) context layer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kaiyu Zhou , Yongsen Zheng , Yicheng He , Meng Xue , Xueluan Gong , Yuji Wang , Xuanye Zhang , Kwok-Yan Lam

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

LLM-powered coding agents, which operate in iterative loops (turns) to solve software engineering tasks, are becoming increasingly powerful. However, their practical deployment is hindered by significant and unpredictable costs. This…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Pengfei Gao , Chao Peng

Large language models (LLMs) excel at capturing global token dependencies via self-attention but face prohibitive compute and memory costs on lengthy inputs. While sub-quadratic methods (e.g., linear attention) can reduce these costs, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Yeonju Ro , Zhenyu Zhang , Souvik Kundu , Zhangyang Wang , Aditya Akella

As large language models (LLMs) increasingly tackle complex reasoning tasks, test-time scaling has become critical for enhancing capabilities. However, in agentic scenarios with frequent tool calls, the traditional generation-length-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yichuan Ma , Linyang Li , Yongkang chen , Peiji Li , Xiaozhe Li , Qipeng Guo , Dahua Lin , Kai Chen

With expansive state-action spaces, efficient multi-agent exploration remains a longstanding challenge in reinforcement learning. Although pursuing novelty, diversity, or uncertainty attracts increasing attention, redundant efforts brought…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Yun Qu , Boyuan Wang , Yuhang Jiang , Jianzhun Shao , Yixiu Mao , Cheems Wang , Chang Liu , Xiangyang Ji

We introduce the State Stream Transformer (SST), a novel LLM architecture that reveals emergent reasoning behaviours and capabilities latent in pretrained weights through addressing a fundamental limitation in traditional transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Thea Aviss

Test-time compute scaling, the practice of spending extra computation during inference via repeated sampling, search, or extended reasoning, has become a powerful lever for improving large language model performance. Yet deploying these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Zhiyuan Zhai , Bingcong Li , Bingnan Xiao , Ming Li , Xin Wang

Single-step retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) provides an efficient way to incorporate external information for simple question answering tasks but struggles with complex questions. Agentic RAG extends this paradigm by replacing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yijia Zheng , Marcel Worring

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have shown significant autonomous capabilities in dynamically searching and incorporating relevant tools or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for individual queries. However, fixed context windows limit…

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Multi-turn agent systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have become increasingly popular for software engineering tasks. While LLM agents demonstrate promising effectiveness, the high computational cost of input tokens due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yuan-An Xiao , Pengfei Gao , Chao Peng , Yingfei Xiong

LLM-based agents execute real-world workflows via tools and memory. These affordances enable ill-intended adversaries to also use these agents to carry out complex misuse scenarios. Existing agent misuse benchmarks largely test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Nivya Talokar , Ayush K Tarun , Murari Mandal , Maksym Andriushchenko , Antoine Bosselut

LLM-based agents are increasingly capable of complex task execution, yet current agentic systems remain constrained by text-centric paradigms that struggle with long-horizon tasks due to fragile multi-turn dependencies and context drift. We…

Reasoning in large language models is often discussed as a single capability, but some of its gains may stem from simpler underlying operations. We examine two such primitives, recall and state-tracking, through five controlled task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Shivam Rawat , Lucie Flek , Florian Mai , Nicholas Kluge Corrêa

Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) demonstrate remarkable collective intelligence, wherein multi-agent memory serves as a pivotal mechanism for continual adaptation. However, existing multi-agent memory designs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Muxin Fu , Xiangyuan Xue , Yafu Li , Zefeng He , Siyuan Huang , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng , Yang Yang

Recent large language models (LLMs) face increasing inference latency as input context length and model size continue to grow. In particular, the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technique, which enhances LLM responses by incorporating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Hyungwoo Lee , Kihyun Kim , Jinwoo Kim , Jungmin So , Myung-Hoon Cha , Hong-Yeon Kim , James J. Kim , Youngjae Kim

Recent progress in Language Models (LMs) has dramatically advanced the field of natural language processing (NLP), excelling at tasks like text generation, summarization, and question answering. However, their inference remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Adarsh Prasad Behera , Jaya Prakash Champati , Roberto Morabito , Sasu Tarkoma , James Gross

Communication in Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems is moving beyond discrete tokens to preserve richer context. Recent work such as LatentMAS enables agents to exchange latent messages through full key-value (KV) caches.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yiping Li , Zhiyu An , Wan Du

Enterprise deployments of large-language model (LLM) demand continuously changing document collections with sub-second latency and predictable GPU cost requirements that classical Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines only…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Abu Hanif Muhammad Syarubany , Chang Dong Yoo