Explore/agent app/Think Short, Defer Smart, Act, and Repeat: Calibrated Reasoning and Uncertainty-Aware Deferral for Edge LLM Agents
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Amirmohammad Farzaneh, Osvaldo Simeone/Think Short, Defer Smart, Act, and Repeat: Calibrated Reasoning and Uncertainty-Aware Deferral for Edge LLM AgentsUnknown

LLM agents following the ReAct paradigm are promising enablers of complex multi-step tasks, including multi-hop question answering, code generation, and control of physical AI systems. Yet, when deployed at the edge, they must tightly manage their reasoning budget while remaining reliable and deferring to a cloud-side model only when local uncertainty is too high to act safely. We propose Think Short, Defer Smart (TSDS), a framework that synergistically integrates a lightweight convergence probe, which halts on-device reasoning once the intended action has stabilized, with a perplexity-based deferral rule that escalates uncertain actions to a cloud-side model. Both mechanisms are jointly calibrated on end-to-end episode trajectories via a multi-objective Learn-Then-Test (LTT) procedure, providing simultaneous finite-sample guarantees on expected episode reward and cloud-call rate. We evaluate TSDS on four ReAct benchmarks spanning arithmetic reasoning (GSM8K), multi-hop question answering (HotpotQA), code generation (MBPP), and multi-step embodied planning (household robot), and compare against thought-calibration-only and calibrated-deferral-only standalone baselines. TSDS reduces per-episode thinking compute by 43%-73% over deferral-only baselines across HotpotQA, MBPP, and the household robot task, while maintaining certified reward and cloud-call rate guarantees.

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