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Agentic LLM Inference Demands Specialized Compute for Prefill and Decode Stages

Agentic LLM inference involves multi-turn interactions with tool-calling, creating complex workloads that differ between prefill and decode stages. These stages require distinct compute and memory bandwidth, challenging homogeneous GPU systems.

Source: arXiv · arxiv.org Published 2026-08-04T14:35:25+00:00 Detected 2026-08-05T05:21:15+00:00
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Agentic LLM inference involves multi-turn interactions with tool-calling, creating complex workloads that differ between prefill and decode stages. These stages require distinct compute and memory bandwidth, challenging homogeneous GPU systems.

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Agentic inference now dominates the LLM inference landscape, requiring LLMs to actively engage in multi-turn interactions with tool-calling capabilities. This introduces a more complex workload for the underlying inference system: serving stages such as prefill and decode exhibit substantially different behaviors...

Understanding the differing resource demands of LLM inference stages can guide more efficient hardware specialization. This can improve performance and cost-effectiveness in deploying agentic LLMs.

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