提出跨设备-边缘-云的智能体服务框架,实现去中心化资源分配的稳定与高效。
Real-Time AI Service Economy: A Framework for Agentic Computing Across the Continuum
- 用分层依赖图结构建模服务流程,设计可稳定定价的去中心化机制
- 实验验证拓扑结构决定价格稳定性,复杂依赖导致波动,分片整合降低89%价格波动
- 适合研究分布式系统、智能体协作及实时AI服务架构的开发者与研究者
实时AI服务运行于设备-边缘-云连续体中,自主智能体生成低延迟工作负载,编排多阶段流水线,并在治理约束下竞争共享资源。本文表明,服务依赖图的结构(建模为计算阶段的有向无环图)是去中心化、基于价格的资源分配能否在大规模下可靠运行的关键因素。当依赖图为分层结构(树状或串并联)时,价格收敛至稳定均衡,最优分配可高效计算,且在适当机制设计下,智能体在每个决策周期内无谎报估值的动机;而当依赖关系更复杂时,价格震荡,分配质量下降。核心贡献是一种混合架构:跨域集成器将复杂子图封装为接口简洁的分片,具备可行性与直接激励相容性(DSIC)保证,以及价格发现动态的稳定性。六组实验(共1590次运行,每组10个随机种子)结合战略投标测试与真实智能体负载,验证了:(i) 拓扑是价格稳定性与可扩展性的首要决定因素;(ii) 在资源争用场景下,集成器采用EMA平滑分片报价可显著降低代理面对的价格波动(中位数约89%),缓解治理引发的波动;(iii) 治理约束带来可量化的效率-合规权衡,取决于拓扑与负载;(iv) 在诚实报价下,市场表现接近集中式价值贪婪基线,在争用下带来小幅福利增益。因此,流水线呈分层有向无环图的系统,可在无需单一控制权威的情况下,实现集中式水平的协调效果。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Real-time AI services run across the device-edge-cloud continuum, where autonomous AI agents generate latency-sensitive workloads, orchestrate multi-stage pipelines, and compete for shared resources under governance constraints. This article shows that the structure of service-dependency graphs, modelled as DAGs of compute stages, is a primary determinant of whether decentralised, price-based resource allocation works reliably at scale. When dependency graphs are hierarchical (tree or series-parallel), prices converge to stable equilibria, optimal allocations are computed efficiently, and under appropriate mechanism design agents have no incentive to misreport their valuations within each decision epoch; when dependencies are more complex, prices oscillate and allocation quality degrades. Our anchor contribution is a hybrid architecture in which cross-domain integrators encapsulate complex sub-graphs into slices with a simpler interface, carrying a feasibility-and-DSIC guarantee and a price-stability property of the integrator's price-discovery dynamics. An ablation study across six experiments (1,590 runs, 10 seeds each), with a strategic-bidding test of incentive compatibility and a measured agentic workload, confirms that (i) topology is a first-order determinant of price stability and scalability, (ii) in the contended regime the integrator's EMA-smoothed slice posting robustly reduces agent-facing price volatility (median ~89%) and mitigates governance-induced volatility, (iii) governance constraints create quantifiable efficiency-compliance trade-offs depending on topology and load, and (iv) under truthful bidding the market matches a centralised value-greedy baseline, adding modest welfare under contention. Systems whose pipelines form hierarchical DAGs can thus achieve centralised-quality coordination through decentralised pricing without a single controlling authority.
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