Yandex researchers propose KV cache as an agent runtime, demo Qwen3.8 playing DOOM interactively

_puhsu · reddit · 2026-09-07

Yandex's research team published a blog post proposing to modify the model's inference state (KV cache) directly as an agent runtime for better interactivity and responsiveness. The idea builds on their prior papers Hogwild! Inference and AsyncReasoning, and the post previews upcoming work: a Qwen3.8-27B agent playing a DOOM environment interactively with similar techniques.

Their core argument: inference/runtime design may be an under-explored axis of agent capability — existing harnesses are too abstract and swapping models is too costly, so something in between may be needed.

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