TwinHash: Two-Sided Object Identity Management for Time- and Energy-Efficient Agentic Workflows
Agentic artificial intelligence (AI) services interleave large language model (LLM) generation with external tool execution, and increasingly rely on search-based workflows that repeatedly revisit shared reasoning states and computations. These patterns create substantial redundancy across tool outputs, LLM responses, and key-value (KV) prefixes, yet existing serving systems primarily optimize shared prompt prefixes, while naive input-keyed caching is unsafe when identical requests produce different outputs. We present TwinHash, a unified object management architecture that assigns each object an input-side hash key to recognize repeated requests and an output-side content fingerprint to validate and locate stored state, complemented by type-specific reuse guards that preserve correctness and response diversity. A software object identity table maintains reusable objects across requests and trajectories, while a hardware object placement table tracks their residency across hierarchical memory tiers so that evicted state can be retrieved rather than recomputed. Across seven agent frameworks and five benchmark suites, reuse follows workflow structure more than benchmark identity. TwinHash serves up to 81% of tool outputs wherever deterministic tool reads recur, and up to 92% of LLM responses in search-based frameworks. Retrieving an evicted KV-prefix from DRAM reduces TTFT by up to 5.6x on Qwen3-32B, with greater gains projected for larger dense models. Under search-based frameworks, TwinHash reduces end-to-end wall-clock time by up to 87% and measured task energy by up to 81% over a prefix-cached baseline, while a per-key serving cap controls the quality-reuse trade-off in adaptive search. These results demonstrate that unified identity, safety, and placement management can convert structural redundancy in emerging agentic workflows into substantial serving-efficiency gains.