Executing as You Generate: Hiding Execution Latency in LLM Code Generation
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| author | Sun, Zhensu Lin, Zhihao Chen, Zhi Yang, Chengran Zhou, Mingyi Li, Li Lo, David |
| author_facet | Sun, Zhensu Lin, Zhihao Chen, Zhi Yang, Chengran Zhou, Mingyi Li, Li Lo, David |
| contents | Current LLM-based coding agents follow a serial execution paradigm: the model first generates the complete code, then invokes an interpreter to execute it. This sequential workflow leaves the executor idle during generation and the generator idle during execution, resulting in unnecessary end-to-end latency. We observe that, unlike human developers, LLMs produce code tokens sequentially without revision, making it possible to execute code as it is being generated. We formalize this parallel execution paradigm, modeling it as a three-stage pipeline of generation, detection, and execution, and derive closed-form latency bounds that characterize its speedup potential and operating regimes. We then present Eager, a concrete implementation featuring AST-based chunking, dynamic batching with gated execution, and early error interruption. We evaluate Eager across four benchmarks, seven LLMs, and three execution environments. Results show that Eager reduces the non-overlapped execution latency by up to 99.9% and the end-to-end latency by up to 55% across seven LLMs and four benchmarks. |
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| spellingShingle | Executing as You Generate: Hiding Execution Latency in LLM Code Generation Sun, Zhensu Lin, Zhihao Chen, Zhi Yang, Chengran Zhou, Mingyi Li, Li Lo, David Programming Languages Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering Current LLM-based coding agents follow a serial execution paradigm: the model first generates the complete code, then invokes an interpreter to execute it. This sequential workflow leaves the executor idle during generation and the generator idle during execution, resulting in unnecessary end-to-end latency. We observe that, unlike human developers, LLMs produce code tokens sequentially without revision, making it possible to execute code as it is being generated. We formalize this parallel execution paradigm, modeling it as a three-stage pipeline of generation, detection, and execution, and derive closed-form latency bounds that characterize its speedup potential and operating regimes. We then present Eager, a concrete implementation featuring AST-based chunking, dynamic batching with gated execution, and early error interruption. We evaluate Eager across four benchmarks, seven LLMs, and three execution environments. Results show that Eager reduces the non-overlapped execution latency by up to 99.9% and the end-to-end latency by up to 55% across seven LLMs and four benchmarks. |
| title | Executing as You Generate: Hiding Execution Latency in LLM Code Generation |
| topic | Programming Languages Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00491 |