Should SLMs be in the Driver's Seat? A Study of Local Models as Interpreters in Cloud-Written Agent Programs

arXiv cs.AIOctober 14, 2026en

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arXiv:2610.14209v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The most accurate agents executing user-provided tasks are driven by large, cloud-hosted models, which solve them by reading the private data of the user. Agents powered by models small enough to run on edge devices keep that data local, but yield far worse results. A third option is to have cloud models write a program that devices execute: the data stays local, but as the program is written before any data is seen, it fails whenever a step depends on interpreting content that appears only at run time. We explore an intermediate architecture, in which the cloud-written program defers bounded questions over user data to a small local model thro

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