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ReTrace: Distilling Tool-Using Agents into Planner-Free Workflows
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 1 min read
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- What happened
- ReTrace converts LLM agent workflows into code-driven executable workflows by extracting decision rules from agent reasoning logs, reducing cost and latency.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers automating repetitive business processes at scale where LLM call costs and latency are production concerns.
- Watch out
- ReTrace workflows achieve 93.8% completion versus agent's 96.8% on production tasks, indicating a tradeoff between efficiency gains and reduced reliability.
- agent
- llm
- language model
- reasoning
- distill
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