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Autori principali: Bian, Song, Yan, Minghao, Jayarajan, Anand, Pekhimenko, Gennady, Venkataraman, Shivaram
Natura: Preprint
Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16276
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author Bian, Song
Yan, Minghao
Jayarajan, Anand
Pekhimenko, Gennady
Venkataraman, Shivaram
author_facet Bian, Song
Yan, Minghao
Jayarajan, Anand
Pekhimenko, Gennady
Venkataraman, Shivaram
contents Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities. To further enhance LLM capabilities, recent agentic systems, such as Deep Research, incorporate web interactions into LLM reasoning to mitigate uncertainties and reduce potential errors. However, existing research predominantly focuses on reasoning performance, often neglecting the efficiency of agentic systems. In this work, we present a comprehensive empirical study that identifies efficiency bottlenecks in web-interactive agentic systems. We decompose end-to-end latency into two primary components: LLM API latency and web environment latency. We conduct a comprehensive empirical study across 15 models and 5 providers to demonstrate high variability in API-based agentic systems. We observe that web environment latency can contribute as much as 53.7% to the overall latency in a web-based agentic system. To improve latency, we propose SpecCache, a caching framework augmented with speculative execution that can reduce web environment overhead. Extensive evaluations on two standard benchmarks show that our approach improves the cache hit rate by up to 58x compared to a random caching strategy, while reducing web environment overhead by up to 3.2x, without degrading agentic system performance.
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spellingShingle What Limits Agentic Systems Efficiency?
Bian, Song
Yan, Minghao
Jayarajan, Anand
Pekhimenko, Gennady
Venkataraman, Shivaram
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI-o1 and DeepSeek-R1, have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities. To further enhance LLM capabilities, recent agentic systems, such as Deep Research, incorporate web interactions into LLM reasoning to mitigate uncertainties and reduce potential errors. However, existing research predominantly focuses on reasoning performance, often neglecting the efficiency of agentic systems. In this work, we present a comprehensive empirical study that identifies efficiency bottlenecks in web-interactive agentic systems. We decompose end-to-end latency into two primary components: LLM API latency and web environment latency. We conduct a comprehensive empirical study across 15 models and 5 providers to demonstrate high variability in API-based agentic systems. We observe that web environment latency can contribute as much as 53.7% to the overall latency in a web-based agentic system. To improve latency, we propose SpecCache, a caching framework augmented with speculative execution that can reduce web environment overhead. Extensive evaluations on two standard benchmarks show that our approach improves the cache hit rate by up to 58x compared to a random caching strategy, while reducing web environment overhead by up to 3.2x, without degrading agentic system performance.
title What Limits Agentic Systems Efficiency?
topic Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16276