Introduces a three-tier architecture with an agent runtime layer and four primitives for agent-aware policies in LLM serving, validated on KV caching via CacheSage showing 13-37pp hit-rate gains on five workloads.
TokenCake: A KV-Cache-centric Serving Framework for LLM-based Multi-Agent Applications
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Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in complex multi-agent applications that rely on external function calls. This workload creates severe performance challenges for the KV Cache: spatial contention leads to the eviction of critical agents' caches and temporal underutilization leaves the cache of agents stalled on long-running function calls idling in GPU memory. We present TokenCake, a KV-Cache-centric serving framework that bridges this gap by co-optimizing scheduling and memory management through an agent-aware design. TokenCake's Temporal Scheduler employs an event-driven, opportunistic policy to proactively offload idle KV Caches during function calls and uses predictive uploading to hide data transfer latency. TokenCake's Spatial Scheduler uses dynamic memory partitioning, guided by a hybrid priority metric combining graph structure and runtime state, to reserve GPU memory for critical-path agents. Our evaluation on representative multi-agent benchmarks shows that TokenCake reduces end-to-end latency by over 47.06% and improves effective GPU memory utilization by up to 16.9% compared to vLLM.
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Scepsy schedules arbitrary multi-LLM agentic workflows on GPU clusters by constructing Aggregate LLM Pipelines from stable per-LLM execution time shares, then searching fractional GPU allocations, tensor parallelism, and replica counts to achieve up to 2.4x higher throughput and 27x lower latency.
ForkKV uses copy-on-write disaggregated KV cache with DualRadixTree and ResidualAttention kernels to deliver up to 3x throughput over prior multi-LoRA serving systems with negligible quality loss.
TokenDance scales multi-agent LLM serving to 2.7x more concurrent agents by collective KV cache reuse and block-sparse diff encoding that achieves 11-17x compression.
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A Policy-Driven Runtime Layer for Agentic LLM Serving
Introduces a three-tier architecture with an agent runtime layer and four primitives for agent-aware policies in LLM serving, validated on KV caching via CacheSage showing 13-37pp hit-rate gains on five workloads.
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Hive: A Multi-Agent Infrastructure for Algorithm- and Task-Level Scaling
Hive is a multi-agent infrastructure with a logits cache for reducing cross-path redundancy in sampling and agent-aware scheduling for better compute and KV-cache allocation, shown to deliver 1.11x-1.76x speedups and 33%-51% lower hotspot miss rates.
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Scepsy: Serving Agentic Workflows Using Aggregate LLM Pipelines
Scepsy schedules arbitrary multi-LLM agentic workflows on GPU clusters by constructing Aggregate LLM Pipelines from stable per-LLM execution time shares, then searching fractional GPU allocations, tensor parallelism, and replica counts to achieve up to 2.4x higher throughput and 27x lower latency.
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ForkKV: Scaling Multi-LoRA Agent Serving via Copy-on-Write Disaggregated KV Cache
ForkKV uses copy-on-write disaggregated KV cache with DualRadixTree and ResidualAttention kernels to deliver up to 3x throughput over prior multi-LoRA serving systems with negligible quality loss.
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TokenDance: Scaling Multi-Agent LLM Serving via Collective KV Cache Sharing
TokenDance scales multi-agent LLM serving to 2.7x more concurrent agents by collective KV cache reuse and block-sparse diff encoding that achieves 11-17x compression.