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AgentCollab is a research paper proposing a way to split work between a small, cheap LLM and a larger, more capable one during multi-step agent tasks. The small model handles routine steps, and the agent's own self-reflection decides when to hand off to the stronger model, without an external router. The reported gains are accuracy-efficiency tradeoffs on agent benchmarks, so readers should check how these results hold up on their own workloads and cost structures.
AgentCollab: A Self-Evaluation-Driven Collaboration Paradigm for Efficient LLM Agents
arXiv:2603.26034v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) perform complex tasks through long-horizon reasoning and tool interaction, where a fundamental trade-off arises between execution efficiency and reasoning robustness. Models at different capability-cost levels offer complementary advantages: lower-cost models enable fast execution but may struggle on difficult reasoning segments, while stronger models provide more robust reasoning at higher computational cost. We present AgentCollab, a self-driven collaborative inference framework that dynamically coordinates models with different reasoning capacities during agent execution. Instead of relying on external routing modules, the framework uses the agent's own self-reflection signal to determine whether the current reasoning trajectory is making meaningful progress, and escalates control to a stronger reasoning tier only when necessary. To further stabilize long-horizon execution, we introduce a difficulty-aware cumulative escalation strategy that allocates additional reasoning budget based on recent failure signals. In our experiments, we instantiate this framework using a two-level small-large model setting. Experiments on diverse multi-step agent benchmarks show that AgentCollab consistently improves the accuracy-efficiency Pareto frontier of LLM agents. The code is available at https://github.com/SparkEngineAI/AgentFlashInfer.
Abstract:Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) perform complex tasks through long-horizon reasoning and tool interaction, where a fundamental trade-off arises between execution efficiency and reasoning robustness. Models at different capability-cost levels offer complementary advantages: lower-cost models enable fast execution but may struggle on difficult reasoning segments, while stronger models provide more robust reasoning at higher computational cost. We present AgentCollab, a self-driven collaborative inference framework that dynamically coordinates models with different reasoning capacities during agent execution. Instead of relying on external routing modules, the framework uses the agent's own self-reflection signal to determine whether the current reasoning trajectory is making meaningful progress, and escalates control to a stronger reasoning tier only when necessary. To further stabilize long-horizon execution, we introduce a difficulty-aware cumulative escalation strategy that allocates additional reasoning budget based on recent failure signals. In our experiments, we instantiate this framework using a two-level small-large model setting. Experiments on diverse multi-step agent benchmarks show that AgentCollab consistently improves the accuracy-efficiency Pareto frontier of LLM agents. The code is available at this https URL.
Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2603.26034 [cs.CL]
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