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This research addresses latency in LLM agents by unifying the reasoning model and its tool-call predictor into a single architecture via joint reinforcement learning. By allowing an agent to speculate on its own next actions, this approach significantly improves prediction accuracy while maintaining task success rates without requiring separate draft models or external caches. The method offers a streamlined design for reducing wall-clock time in agentic workflows where waiting for tool responses is a bottleneck.
Speculate While You Reason: Teaching Agents to Predict Their Next Tool Call via Joint Agent-Speculator RL
arXiv:2607.25816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents often spend substantial wall-clock time waiting for tool call results. Tool-call speculation can hide this latency by predicting and pre-executing an agent's next tool call if the prediction matches the agent's eventual tool call, but existing speculators are typically separate draft models or cached traces that are poorly aligned with the deployed agent's own behavior. We identify this speculator-agent gap and show that the target agent itself is a strong next-call speculator. This points to a simpler design: unifying the agent and speculator within the same model. In this paper, we introduce the self-speculating agent, a single model that both solves tasks in agent mode and predicts its next tool call from partial trajectories in speculator mode, fully reusing prefix KV cache. To enable this dual-mode agent without degrading performance, we propose a joint agent-speculator reinforcement learning method, which derives speculation targets from the agent's own rollouts and alternates agent and speculator updates. Across agentic search QA and conversational tool-use agentic tasks, our method improves average next tool-call Hit@1 from 44.1 to 61.2 for Qwen3-4B and from 48.9 to 66.3 for Qwen3.5-4B, while preserving agent task success.
Abstract:Large language model agents often spend substantial wall-clock time waiting for tool call results. Tool-call speculation can hide this latency by predicting and pre-executing an agent's next tool call if the prediction matches the agent's eventual tool call, but existing speculators are typically separate draft models or cached traces that are poorly aligned with the deployed agent's own behavior. We identify this speculator-agent gap and show that the target agent itself is a strong next-call speculator. This points to a simpler design: unifying the agent and speculator within the same model. In this paper, we introduce the self-speculating agent, a single model that both solves tasks in agent mode and predicts its next tool call from partial trajectories in speculator mode, fully reusing prefix KV cache. To enable this dual-mode agent without degrading performance, we propose a joint agent-speculator reinforcement learning method, which derives speculation targets from the agent's own rollouts and alternates agent and speculator updates. Across agentic search QA and conversational tool-use agentic tasks, our method improves average next tool-call Hit@1 from 44.1 to 61.2 for Qwen3-4B and from 48.9 to 66.3 for Qwen3.5-4B, while preserving agent task success.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2607.25816 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2607.25816v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.25816 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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