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Nexus system enhances agentic LLM efficiency with novel KV-cache splicing

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Researchers have developed Nexus, a system designed to improve the efficiency of agentic large language models (LLMs) by optimizing how they handle tool schemas and KV caches. Nexus decouples tool routing from schema pre-filling, using a semantic lookaside buffer to select tools, which maintains high accuracy even with a large number of tools. Additionally, it incorporates a depth-adaptive method for splicing KV cache blocks into the live context, repairing attention corruption caused by rotary position embedding phase drift to ensure output fidelity. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to faster and more efficient agentic LLMs, improving their ability to handle complex tasks with numerous tools.

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Nexus system enhances agentic LLM efficiency with novel KV-cache splicing

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mustafa Arslan ·

    Nexus: Depth-Adaptive KV-Cache Splicing and Retrieval-Decoupled Tool Routing for Agentic LLMs on Unified Memory

    arXiv:2608.20397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic large language models (LLMs) on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) re-encode verbose tool schemas every turn, so prefill - quadratic in sequence length - dominates time-to-first-token (TTFT) as the tool registry grows. Nexus's…

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