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how_to_speed_up_agents [2026/03/25 15:39] – Create agent latency optimization guide with benchmarks and mermaid diagrams agenthow_to_speed_up_agents [2026/03/30 22:17] (current) – Restructure: footnotes as references agent
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 ====== How to Speed Up Agents ====== ====== How to Speed Up Agents ======
  
-Agent latency directly impacts user experience and throughput. Production systems achieve **50-80% latency reductions** by combining parallel tool calls, optimized inference serving, streaming, and intelligent model selection. This guide covers every layer of the optimization stack with real benchmarks.+Agent latency directly impacts user experience and throughput. Production systems achieve **50-80% latency reductions** by combining parallel tool calls, optimized inference serving, streaming, and intelligent model selection. This guide covers every layer of the optimization stack with real benchmarks.(([[https://blog.langchain.com/how-do-i-speed-up-my-agent/|How Do I Speed Up My Agent?]]))
  
 ===== Why Agent Latency Matters ===== ===== Why Agent Latency Matters =====
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     subgraph Serving     subgraph Serving
-        B1[vLLM / TGI / SGLang]+        B1[vLLM / TGI / SGLang](([[https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17593|Comparative Analysis: vLLM vs HuggingFace TGI]]))
         B2[Continuous Batching]         B2[Continuous Batching]
         B3[KV Cache Reuse]         B3[KV Cache Reuse]
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 ===== Technique 1: Parallel Tool Execution ===== ===== Technique 1: Parallel Tool Execution =====
  
-The single biggest latency win for agents. Instead of executing tools sequentially, run independent calls concurrently.+The single biggest latency win for agents. Instead of executing tools sequentially, run independent calls concurrently.(([[https://langcopilot.com/posts/2025-10-17-why-ai-agents-fail-latency-planning|Why AI Agents Fail: Latency]]))
  
-**Measured impact:** >20% latency reduction (LLMCompiler benchmark), with gains scaling linearly with the number of independent tools.+**Measured impact:** >20% latency reduction (LLMCompiler benchmark), with gains scaling linearly with the number of independent tools.(([[https://georgian.io/reduce-llm-costs-and-latency-guide|Reduce LLM Costs and Latency Guide]]))
  
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 Self-hosting with optimized serving engines delivers major throughput and latency gains. Self-hosting with optimized serving engines delivers major throughput and latency gains.
  
-**vLLM vs TGI vs Naive PyTorch Benchmarks (A100 GPU, Llama 3.1 8B):**+**vLLM vs TGI vs Naive PyTorch Benchmarks (A100 GPU, Llama 3.1 8B):**(([[https://vllm.readthedocs.io/|vLLM Documentation]]))
  
 ^ Engine ^ Throughput (tok/s) ^ TTFT (ms) ^ Key Feature ^ ^ Engine ^ Throughput (tok/s) ^ TTFT (ms) ^ Key Feature ^
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   * **Medium effort (1 week):** Implement parallel tool execution, add semantic caching   * **Medium effort (1 week):** Implement parallel tool execution, add semantic caching
   * **Infrastructure (2-4 weeks):** Deploy vLLM/SGLang, enable prefix caching, set up model routing   * **Infrastructure (2-4 weeks):** Deploy vLLM/SGLang, enable prefix caching, set up model routing
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-===== References ===== 
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-  * [[https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17593|Comparative Analysis: vLLM vs HuggingFace TGI]] - Kolluru (2025) 
-  * [[https://blog.langchain.com/how-do-i-speed-up-my-agent/|How Do I Speed Up My Agent?]] - LangChain Blog (2025) 
-  * [[https://georgian.io/reduce-llm-costs-and-latency-guide|Reduce LLM Costs and Latency Guide]] - Georgian (2025) 
-  * [[https://langcopilot.com/posts/2025-10-17-why-ai-agents-fail-latency-planning|Why AI Agents Fail: Latency]] - LangCopilot (2025) 
-  * [[https://vllm.readthedocs.io/|vLLM Documentation]] - vLLM Project 
  
 ===== See Also ===== ===== See Also =====
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   * [[what_is_an_ai_agent|What is an AI Agent]]   * [[what_is_an_ai_agent|What is an AI Agent]]
  
 +===== References =====
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