Concurrent multi-agent workflows expose future dependencies and serving-state requirements while running on heterogeneous GPU pools with time-varying load, model residency, and resource availability. The logical workflow defines the required computation, whereas its physical scheduling units, model-lifecycle actions, resource ordering, and placement must be selected according to the observed pool state. We present a prediction-guided runtime that uses workflow forecasts to construct and optimize a physical execution graph. Predictor estimates device-specific activation latency, peak memory, and model-loading cost, then propagates these predictions through workflow dependencies to forecast activation readiness and future model demand. Constructor builds semantics-preserving fusion and model-lifecycle alternatives, while Scheduler jointly optimizes their selection, placement, and execution order based on the live pool state. Across a workload spanning three workflow scenarios on a heterogeneous GPU pool, our system reduces end-to-end makespan and overall p95 completion latency under burst arrivals by up to 36.8% and 25.9%, respectively, over state-of-the-art workflow schedulers. It also saves up to 24.63 GPU-s per completed session.
Jing-Hao Wang, Yi-Feng Zhang, Xiao Zhou et al.· 0 citations
As LLM agents increasingly rely on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to invoke isolated external sandboxes, disaggregated sandbox deployment introduces a fundamental tension between resource utilization and interactive tail latency. Persistent long-lived sandbox reservations incur excessive memory overhead at scale, while lazy on-demand instantiation generates severe cold-start penalties that degrade response performance under multi-tenant, multi-turn agent workloads. To resolve this dilemma, we present SpecBox, a runtime built around speculative sandbox preallocation tailored for dynamic LLM agent execution pipelines. At its core, SpecBox implements keyword matching and streaming semantic embedding to enable intent-driven sandbox prewarming, which identifies pending tool execution demands mid-LLM token generation and fully overlaps sandbox bootstrapping with model inference. To extend prewarming windows across sequential agent steps, the framework leverages context-aware stochastic prefetching atop a sandbox dependency graph to probabilistically forecast future sandbox switches ahead of execution. We complement these speculative mechanisms with two orthogonal optimizations: a semantic result cache that prunes redundant repeated sandbox invocations, and a dedicated out-of-band shared-memory transport plane that bypasses conventional network serialization to deliver zero-copy artifact transfers. Evaluated on high-concurrency multi-turn agent traces, our prototype demonstrates that SpecBox cuts P99 end-to-end latency by up to $2.9\times$ relative to the on-demand sandbox baseline, while slashing peak memory consumption by $45.9\%$ compared to permanently reserved sandbox deployments.
Yihui Zhang, Tianyu Wo, Jinghao Wang et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
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