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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 96/10

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Cost-Aware Speculative Execution for LLM-Agent Workflows: An Integrated Five-Dimension Method

Researchers present a cost-aware method for optimizing speculative execution in LLM-agent workflows, addressing the challenge of reducing idle time while managing per-token billing costs. The approach combines five design decisions—including predictive execution, dual-rate pricing, Bayesian probability estimation, and a configurable latency-cost tradeoff—with safeguards ensuring only side-effect-free operations proceed speculatively.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Jun 26/10

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Ghost Tool Calls: Issue-Time Privacy for Speculative Agent Tools

Researchers identify a privacy vulnerability in AI agents that use speculative tool calls to reduce latency, where external services receive and retain inferred user intent data even after the agent abandons the speculative branch. The study proposes Speculative Tool Privacy Contracts as a runtime solution, finding that only issue-time policies suppressing or modifying calls before dispatch effectively mitigate information leakage.