FlashRT: An Agent Harness That Deploys Real-Time Multimodal Pipelines

arXiv·high signal

Krish Agarwal, Zhuoming Chen and Yanyuan Qin present FlashRT (arXiv 2607.18171, cs.LG), a harness that guides agents through composing heterogeneous models — ASR, LLM, TTS, video generators — into real-time pipelines where per-stage latency budgets interact. The framing is notable: the agent is the deployment engineer, not the inference engine. Relevant to anyone building voice agents or interactive video where the hard part is orchestration, not any single model.