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Tandem: Serving Hybrid Linear-Attention GUI Agents on Mobile NPUs

Zhuomin Chen, Jingchao Ni, Xu Zheng, Yong Chen, Mo Sha, Wei Cheng, Dongsheng Luo · 2026 · arXiv (Cornell University)

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2610.26660 · cited by 0 works (OpenAlex) · open-access PDF

Japanese

スマートフォンのステップGUIエージェントからステップエージェントがモバイルアプリケーションでタスクを完了し、画面を繰り返し読んで、次のアクションのためのモデルを要求します。モバイル神経処理ユニット(NPUs)は局部実行を可能にし、画面のコンテンツを電話で保持するが、モデルの遅延は各アクションで蓄積されます。ハイブリッド線形注意モデルはメモリ要件を削減するが、その繰り返し使用する状態は、適切な入力ポジションでチェックポイントを必要とします。エージェント要求は、指示を保持するが、最近の歴史を書き直すので、チャットの継続のために設計されたチェックポイントポリシーは、再利用可能なプレフィックスを省略することができます。

Machine translation (Meta M2M100); the English original follows.

Abstract

Smartphone GUI agents complete tasks in mobile apps by repeatedly reading the screen and asking a model for the next action. Mobile neural processing units (NPUs) enable local execution, keeping screen contents on the phone, but model latency accumulates with every action. Hybrid linear attention models reduce memory requirements, yet reusing their recurrent state requires checkpoints at the appropriate input positions. Agent requests retain instructions but rewrite recent history, so checkpoint policies designed for chat continuation can miss reusable prefixes. Retaining rollback states for speculative decoding can also move prompt processing off the NPU's matrix unit, adding overhead that outweighs decoding savings on short action outputs. A loaded model can further hold the NPU awake between tasks. We present Tandem, a runtime for hybrid GUI agents on mobile NPUs. Tandem saves recurrent state where consecutive prompts diverge, allowing later requests to reuse previously processed context. It keeps most prefill on the matrix unit and produces rollback states through a short per-token tail. Its verification kernel reads each weight block once for all proposed tokens. Between request bursts, Tandem releases NPU power votes without unloading the model. We implement Tandem in llama.cpp and evaluate it on recorded agent interactions across two Snapdragon generations. On a Snapdragon 8 Elite, Tandem reduces per-step latency by 30% for text-based screen descriptions and 16% for screenshots relative to llama.cpp's fastest NPU configuration, reduces energy per text step by 33%, and lowers standby power with the model loaded from 0.76 to 0.22 W.

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Topics: Computer science, Latency (audio), Operating system, Decoding methods, Reuse, Rollback

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