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Main Authors: Gong, Jian, Huang, Youwei, Yuan, Bo, Zhu, Ming, Liao, Zhou, Liang, Jianhang, Zhan, Juncheng, Wang, Jinke, Shu, Hang, Xiong, Mingyue, Ye, Yanjun, Zu, Yufan, Zhou, Yang, Ding, Yihan, Chen, Xuannian, Lu, Xingyu, Ban, Runjie, Huang, Bingchao, Liu, Fusen
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05298
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  • We present GhostShell, a novel approach that leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable streaming and concurrent behavioral programming for embodied systems. In contrast to conventional methods that rely on pre-scheduled action sequences or behavior trees, GhostShell drives embodied systems to act on-the-fly by issuing function calls incrementally as tokens are streamed from the LLM. GhostShell features a streaming XML function token parser, a dynamic function interface mapper, and a multi-channel scheduler that orchestrates intra-channel synchronous and inter-channel asynchronous function calls, thereby coordinating serial-parallel embodied actions across multiple robotic components under LLM guidance. We evaluate GhostShell on our robotic prototype COCO through comprehensive grounded experiments across 34 real-world interaction tasks and multiple LLM backends. The results demonstrate that our approach achieves a state-of-the-art Behavioral Correctness Metric of 0.85 with Claude-4-Sonnet, and up to 66X faster response times compared to native LLM function calling APIs. GhostShell also proves effective in long-horizon multimodal tasks, exhibiting strong robustness and generalization capabilities.