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P2 What Do We Architect When We Architect LLM Agent Systems?

当我们架构 LLM Agent 系统时,我们在架构什么?
ICSE Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE/ACM 48th International Conference on Software Engineering2026匹配度 3/10 · 论文讨论 LLM Agent 系统的架构维度,与用户关注的 Agentic 程序有间接关联;但它不涉及静态分析、形式化验证、浮点程序分析或贝叶斯程序分析,也没有提出可评估的方法、工具或 benchmark。引用 0 inbox
Kaixuan Li, Maoyi Xie, Jingquan Ge, Yang Liu
crossref: 2026-09-12

AI 速览

一句话:提出 LLM Agent 系统架构应围绕控制、知识、责任、约束与演化五个结构维度,而非仅关注组件与连接件。

论文指出,LLM Agent 的许多关键系统行为并非来自硬编码逻辑,而是由模型推理、策略选择与运行时状态涌现;传统架构图常遗漏提示、记忆与策略,导致对系统行为的描述不完整。作者主张,LLM Agent 架构不能只关注组件与连接件,还需架构“行为空间”,并从控制结构(谁决定下一步)、知识结构(记忆如何组织与治理)、责任结构(谁对什么负责)、约束结构(哪些行为被允许)和演化结构(系统如何随时间变化)五个维度进行推理。文章不提供具体解决方案,而是给出一个用于讨论、辩论与开发这些架构基础的坐标系与词汇表。

问题
传统软件架构以组件与连接件为中心,难以刻画 LLM Agent 中由模型推理、策略选择与运行时状态涌现的关键行为。
方法
通过立场论文与概念分析,提出控制、知识、责任、约束与演化五个结构维度,作为讨论 LLM Agent 架构的坐标系与词汇表。
评估
本文为立场与概念性工作,未进行实证评估,而是通过论证与维度框架说明现有架构图在描述 LLM Agent 系统时的不完整之处。
原文摘要(Abstract)

In LLM agent systems, many critical system behaviors no longer originate from hard-coded logic but emerge from model inference, strategy selection, and runtime state. This raises a fundamental question: when behavior is not in the code, what are we actually architecting? Traditional architecture diagrams often omit prompts, yet prompts determine system behavior. They often omit memory, yet memory determines long-term system drift. They often omit policies, yet policies determine whether systems remain safe. We may be drawing incomplete diagrams. This paper argues that LLM agent architecture requires reasoning about five structural dimensions: control structures (who decides what happens next), knowledge structures (how memory is organized and governed), responsibility structures (who is accountable for what), constraint structures (what behaviors are permitted), and evolution structures (how systems change over time). While components and connectors remain foundational, they may be insufficient to fully characterize these systems; we must also architect the behavior space. We offer not a solution but a coordinate system—a vocabulary to discuss, debate, and develop these architectural foundations.

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@inproceedings{paperbot11580,
  title = {What Do We Architect When We Architect LLM Agent Systems?},
  author = {Kaixuan Li and Maoyi Xie and Jingquan Ge and Yang Liu},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3774748.3795870}
}