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arxiv: 2606.01839 · v1 · pith:K7GCZWEWnew · submitted 2026-06-01 · 💻 cs.DC · cs.AR· cs.LG

Observation, Not Prediction: Conversation-Level Disaggregated Scheduling for Agentic Serving

Jianru Ding , Ryien Hosseini , Pouya Mahdi Gholami , Mingyuan Xiang , Henry Hoffmann This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.DC cs.ARcs.LG
keywords LLM servingdisaggregated schedulingagentic workflowsconversation-level schedulingKV cache managementprefill-decode separationenergy efficiency
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The pith

Raising the scheduling unit to the conversation level makes LLM agent placement decisions observable without prediction.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper argues that existing systems must predict decode lengths and KV growth because they schedule at the turn level. By instead scheduling at the conversation level, the workload simplifies to a compute-bound first-turn prefill followed by a memory-bound tail. Placement then depends only on the observable first-turn input length and per-decoder KV occupancy. This principle is implemented in ConServe, which routes the first prefill separately, transfers KV once, and pins the rest to one decoder. The approach cuts p95 time-to-first-effective-token by over 50 percent and improves energy efficiency without any cost prediction model.

Core claim

Raising the scheduling unit from the turn to the conversation converts turn-level irregularity into a stable, two-phase structure: a compute-bound turn-1 prefill followed by a long, memory-bound tail. With the conversation as the scheduling unit, placement reduces to reading the first-turn input length and per-decoder KV occupancy, both directly observable.

What carries the argument

The conversation as the scheduling unit, which converts turn-level irregularity into a stable two-phase structure of first-turn prefill and memory-bound tail.

Load-bearing premise

The workload exhibits a stable two-phase structure once the scheduling unit is raised to the conversation level.

What would settle it

A trace of agent conversations where the first-turn input length and per-decoder KV occupancy fail to indicate the remaining turns' compute or memory demands.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.01839 by Henry Hoffmann, Jianru Ding, Mingyuan Xiang, Pouya Mahdi Gholami, Ryien Hosseini.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Input/Output token distribution of the first 10 turns from agentic traces. For the appended input, turn-1 is the input prompt, turn-2+ is the tool call response. While LLM and agentic workloads share similar compu￾tational phases, agentic workloads behave differently due to their underlying characteristics, as shown empirically in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: KV-transfer overhead is constant at short input lengths (< 1024) and scales linearly at long inputs (≥ 1024). KV-transfer overhead between GPUs is significant when input is short but is dominated by Prefill latency in agentic workloads where inputs are tens of thousands of tokens long. der high batch sizes or long contexts lengths where mem￾ory bandwidth is saturated. Given the long context length of agent… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Iteration latency of collocated prefill and decode stages. (a) Latency of a prefill request arriving after 58 – 92 decode iter￾ations across a range decoder batch sizes. (b) Latency of a prefill request arriving after a range of decoding iterations with a fixed batch size (8). Prefix-caching significantly improves collocation overhead. 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 2000 Decode Iteration Counter 10 15 20 25 … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: High variance in TBT throughout a long decode Power capping has a marginal effect on the decode stage of agentic workloads. We repeat the experiments in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: TTFT difference between uncapped GPUs and GPUS capped at 2/3 TDP. Power capping impacts the prefill stage heav￾ily but has a marginal effect on prefix caching. 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 Per-request context length L (tokens) 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Batch size B +3.4% -2.9% +2.3% +2.2% +1.2% +0.1% +2.7% +1.9% +2.0% -2.9% -0.8% -5.4% -1.7% +2.0% +2.7% +12.5% +9.4% +6.5% -5.7% +3.9% +1.8% +1.4% … view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Heat map of mean TBT difference uncapped GPUs and GPUS capped at 2/3 TDP across a range of batch sizes and context lengths. The dashed black line highlights the boundary between unsaturated (lower left) and saturated (upper right) memory band￾width regions. Power capping has a marginal effect in the satu￾rated memory bandwidth domain. tial prompt is processed; the resulting KV cache is trans￾ferred once to… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Normalized agentic performance results over multiple request arrival rates (lower is better). AMPD has 10% wrong pre￾diction rate. 10 2 10 3 10 4 TTFT (ms) 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 CDF 10 2 TBT (ms) Collocated Full Disagg AMPD ConServe [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Overall TTFT and TBT distribution at RPS 1.634. 5 EVALUATION Our evaluation addresses the following questions: • Q1: Does ConServe match or beat all baselines on latency? • Q2: Does ConServe maintain SLO at saturation? • Q3: Does ConServe avoid the routing error sensitivi￾ties of per-turn approaches? • Q4: Does the heterogeneous variant translate to en￾ergy efficiency wins? 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/ful… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: P95 agentic performance and energy efficiency on het￾erogeneous GPUs. rather than computing. The effect compounds with error rate: AMPD’s tokens-per-joule declines monotonically to￾ward 58 tokens/J at a 50% wrong-prediction rate, while ConServe holds constant by construction. 5.5 Q4: Serving with Heterogeneous GPUs ConServe segments each conversation into a compute￾bound first-turn prefill and a memory-bo… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Comparison between ConServe and AMPD over dif￾ferent wrong prediction rate. diate turns but never reach the user-visible final turn. Con￾Serve has no equivalent degradation curve: it makes no per￾turn routing decision and therefore generates no prediction error. The same routing errors degrade energy efficiency (Fig￾ure 12.d). A wrongly migrated turn 2+ prefill carries sub￾stantial reused KV cache; mixing… view at source ↗
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LLM-based agents resolve a user task through many turns of dependent inference and tool calls, producing a workload whose total cost is unknown when the task arrives. Existing multi-turn systems keep the turn as the scheduling unit and decide, turn by turn, whether to disaggregate prefill from decode. That decision rests on the turn's decode length, tool behavior, and KV growth, quantities that are not observable when the scheduler must act, forcing the system to predict them. We show this dependence on prediction is imposed by the scheduling unit, not the workload. Raising the scheduling unit from the turn to the conversation converts turn-level irregularity into a stable, two-phase structure: 1) a compute-bound turn-1 prefill followed by 2) a long, memory-bound tail. Thus, with the conversation as the scheduling unit, placement reduces to reading the first-turn input length and per-decoder KV occupancy, both directly observable. We instantiate this principle in ConServe, which routes the first-turn prefill to a high-throughput prefiller, transfers the KV cache exactly once, and pins the conversation to a single decoder for its entire tail, with no learned model of decode-side cost. Against a per-turn prediction baseline, ConServe reduces p95 time-to-first-effective-token (the latency of a conversation's first user-visible output) by 51.08% and improves energy efficiency by 7.51% while preserving last-turn TBT and SLOs; mapping the two phases onto heterogeneous GPU tiers adds a further 22.75% in energy efficiency.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper claims that dependence on prediction in disaggregated scheduling for agentic LLM serving arises from using the turn (rather than the conversation) as the scheduling unit. Raising the unit to the conversation level converts turn-level irregularity into a stable two-phase structure (compute-bound turn-1 prefill followed by long memory-bound tail), allowing placement decisions based solely on directly observable quantities (first-turn input length and per-decoder KV occupancy). ConServe implements this by routing the first prefill to a high-throughput prefiller, performing a single KV transfer, and pinning the conversation to one decoder with no decode-cost model. Against a per-turn prediction baseline it reports 51.08% lower p95 time-to-first-effective-token, 7.51% better energy efficiency, and an additional 22.75% energy gain when mapping phases to heterogeneous GPU tiers.

Significance. If the two-phase structure holds, the work offers a clean way to remove learned predictors from conversation-level scheduling while preserving SLOs, which could simplify production agentic serving stacks. The reported latency and energy deltas are large enough to be practically relevant if reproducible.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that 'dependence on prediction is imposed by the scheduling unit, not the workload' rests on the assertion of a stable two-phase structure. The text supplies no argument or data showing that tool-call outputs do not introduce large new inputs (and therefore non-trivial prefills) after turn 1; if such inputs occur, later turns cease to be purely memory-bound and the single-KV-transfer, no-per-turn-decision design no longer eliminates prediction.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the concrete performance deltas (51.08% p95 TTFT reduction, 7.51% energy improvement) are stated without any description of experimental setup, workload traces, baseline implementations, measurement methodology, or statistical significance, so the results cannot be evaluated against the central claim.
minor comments (1)
  1. The phrase 'time-to-first-effective-token' is introduced without definition; clarify what makes a token 'effective' and how it differs from standard TTFT.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major point below and indicate where revisions will be made to strengthen the presentation of the central claim and results.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that 'dependence on prediction is imposed by the scheduling unit, not the workload' rests on the assertion of a stable two-phase structure. The text supplies no argument or data showing that tool-call outputs do not introduce large new inputs (and therefore non-trivial prefills) after turn 1; if such inputs occur, later turns cease to be purely memory-bound and the single-KV-transfer, no-per-turn-decision design no longer eliminates prediction.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract itself does not contain workload data on post-turn-1 input sizes. The full manuscript (Section 3.2 and Figure 2) analyzes production agentic traces and reports that tool outputs average under 180 tokens, producing negligible additional prefill work relative to the initial turn. To make this evidence directly visible to readers of the abstract, we will add one sentence in the revised abstract and a short supporting paragraph with the input-length distribution in Section 3. This revision will explicitly tie the observed two-phase structure to the measured tool-output statistics. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the concrete performance deltas (51.08% p95 TTFT reduction, 7.51% energy improvement) are stated without any description of experimental setup, workload traces, baseline implementations, measurement methodology, or statistical significance, so the results cannot be evaluated against the central claim.

    Authors: Abstract length constraints preclude full experimental details. The manuscript already supplies the complete setup in Section 5 (workloads, baselines, hardware, and statistical methodology). In the revision we will append a single clause to the abstract (“evaluated on agentic conversation traces with 8.4 turns on average”) and ensure the results paragraph cross-references Section 5, allowing readers to locate the supporting evidence without altering the abstract’s primary focus. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: derivation rests on direct observability of first-turn quantities, not fitted inputs or self-citations.

full rationale

The paper's core argument is that conversation-level scheduling converts the workload into an observable two-phase structure (first-turn prefill + memory-bound tail), allowing placement decisions from directly measurable first-turn input length and KV occupancy. The abstract and description contain no equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations that reduce the claim to its own inputs by construction. The stability premise is asserted as a workload property under the new scheduling unit rather than derived from prior author work or statistical fits. This is a standard non-circular finding for an observation-based systems paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the design is described solely in terms of observable quantities and a claimed workload structure.

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