Arbor: Tree Search as a Cognition Layer for Autonomous Agents

Neha Prakriya, Chaojun Hou, Zheng Gong, Huasha Zhao 2026-06-14

Arbor addresses the problem of autonomous optimization in large, stateful action spaces by introducing a multi-agent framework with structured tree search as a shared cognition layer. The method pairs an Orchestrator agent with a Critic agent in a checks-and-balances architecture, using an explicit search tree of scored hypotheses as working memory. Experimental evidence shows Arbor achieves up to 193% inference throughput-latency Pareto improvement over vendor-optimized baselines, while a single agent without the harness plateaus at +33% and crashes within hours. This matters because it enables fully autonomous, hardware-agnostic, and reproducible multi-day optimization campaigns across the full LLM inference stack.

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ITME: Inference Tiered Memory Expansion with Disaggregated CXL-Hybrid Memories

Hakbeom Jang, Younghoon Min, Sunwoong Kim, Taeyoung Ahn 2026-06-14

ITME addresses the problem of scaling shared context infrastructure for TB-scale LLM inference workloads beyond individual server capacity. The method leverages CXL-hybrid memory to provide massive, byte-addressable remote memory expansion, simplifying the software stack by eliminating complex software-level optimization. Experimental evidence from production-grade SK Hynix CMM and PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs, along with an FPGA prototype, shows up to a 35.7% throughput improvement over conventional CPU-offloading. This matters because ITME enables cost-efficient scaling of shared context layers for agentic and long-context LLMs by proactively managing data movement across the memory-storage hierarchy.

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