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arXiv CS.AI·May 27·6 min read
AGORA: Adapter-Grounded Observation-Action Retention for Inference-Free Prompt Compression in LLM Agents
TL;DR
LLM agents (language models deployed as autonomous systems) suffer performance collapse when using standard token-level context compression methods designed for general language models. AGORA, a new adapter-grounded compression technique, retains task-critical observation-action pairs without requiring inference-time computation.
✦ Why It Matters
Engineers deploying LLM agents can reduce inference latency and token costs while preserving task performance using AGORA's adapter-based approach.
Key Takeaways
- Implement AGORA to improve prompt efficiency in LLM agents.
- Utilize the structural prompt parser to retain critical tokens.
- Leverage the relevance scorer for adaptive compression.
- Achieve significant performance retention with reduced input size.
How It Works
AGORA combines a structural prompt parser with a relevance scorer to maintain essential action-related tokens during compression. The structural parser identifies and retains critical content, while the relevance scorer, trained on counterfactual next-action-change labels, optimizes the compression process, ensuring that performance remains high even with reduced input.