Toward Systems Foundations for Agentic Exploration

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Main Authors: Xu, Jiakai, Zhou, Tianle, Wu, Eugene, Kaffes, Kostis
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Published: 2025
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author Xu, Jiakai
Zhou, Tianle
Wu, Eugene
Kaffes, Kostis
author_facet Xu, Jiakai
Zhou, Tianle
Wu, Eugene
Kaffes, Kostis
contents Agentic exploration, letting LLM-powered agents branch, backtrack, and search across many execution paths, demands systems support well beyond today's pass-at-k resets. Our benchmark of six snapshot/restore mechanisms shows that generic tools such as CRIU or container commits are not fast enough even in isolated testbeds, and they crumble entirely in real deployments where agents share files, sockets, and cloud APIs with other agents and human users. In this talk, we pinpoint three open fundamental challenges: fork semantics, which concerns how branches reveal or hide tentative updates; external side-effects, where fork awareness must be added to services or their calls intercepted; and native forking, which requires cloning databases and runtimes in microseconds without bulk copying.
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spellingShingle Toward Systems Foundations for Agentic Exploration
Xu, Jiakai
Zhou, Tianle
Wu, Eugene
Kaffes, Kostis
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Operating Systems
Agentic exploration, letting LLM-powered agents branch, backtrack, and search across many execution paths, demands systems support well beyond today's pass-at-k resets. Our benchmark of six snapshot/restore mechanisms shows that generic tools such as CRIU or container commits are not fast enough even in isolated testbeds, and they crumble entirely in real deployments where agents share files, sockets, and cloud APIs with other agents and human users. In this talk, we pinpoint three open fundamental challenges: fork semantics, which concerns how branches reveal or hide tentative updates; external side-effects, where fork awareness must be added to services or their calls intercepted; and native forking, which requires cloning databases and runtimes in microseconds without bulk copying.
title Toward Systems Foundations for Agentic Exploration
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Operating Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05556