CIFLEX: Contextual Instruction Flow for Sub-task Execution in Multi-Turn Interactions with a Single On-Device LLM (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Experiments show that CIFLEX significantly reduces computational costs without degrading task performance. |
| Approach: | They propose a new execution system for efficient sub-task handling with a single large language model. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that CIFLEX significantly reduces computational costs without degrading task performance. |
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