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Act More, Decide Less: Skill-Guided Adaptive Action Chunking for Long-Horizon LLM Agents
AI InsightThe main bottleneck for long-horizon LLM agents is not the quality of single-step decisions but the efficiency loss from frequent decisions. SPACE trains adaptive action chunking by distilling chunk-boundary supervision, signaling a shift from 'thinking at every step' toward 'knowing when not to think.' If proven effective, it could directly impact inference cost and deployment patterns for agents.Key TakeawayLLM agents are shifting from step-by-step decision-making toward an efficiency paradigm of learning when to act in batches.Why It MattersEvery LLM call in long-horizon tasks adds latency and cost. If adaptive action chunking can reduce decision rounds, it will significantly improve deployment cost and response speed for agents, and may influence mainstream frameworks like ReAct.Who's Affected- LLM Agent DevelopersIf SPACE works, it could reduce LLM call frequency in long-horizon tasks, lowering API costs and increasing throughput.
- Agent FrameworksStep-by-step frameworks like ReAct may face challenges or be integrated with chunking strategies.
- Inference ProvidersFewer LLM calls per task may pressure token-based revenue models.
What's NextWatch for experimental results of SPACE on standard long-horizon benchmarks like ALFWorld or WebShop, especially whether chunk length distributions align with human behavior, which would validate the effectiveness of boundary learning.Importance 60/100