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Topology-Consistent Task Planning over Cellular Workflow Complexes for LLM-based Agents

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Task planning for LLM agents requires workflows that satisfy both user intent and complex sub-task dependencies. While existing planners work well for sequential or directed acyclic graph (DAG)-like structures, they struggle with workflow patterns such as verification-correction loops, convergent branch merging, and reusable intermediate states that arise naturally in real-world tool orchestration. We present TopoPlanner, a topology-consistent planning framework that lifts tool dependency graphs into cellular workflow complexes and uses them as topologyaware context for LLM tool planning. TopoPlanner retrieves a request-relevant closed subcomplex through cosheaf-consistent cellular retrieval, performs multidimensional structural reasoning over the retrieved topology, and interfaces the resulting cellular representation with the planner LLM for tool-sequence generation. Experiments on four tool-planning benchmarks with topology-guided loop, merge, and loop-merge workflows show consistent improvements over prompt-based and graph-enhanced baselines across different local LLM backbones.

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Sen Zhao, Jia Tang, Ruiqi Kong, Zuyu Zhang, Lifeng Shen, Ding Zou, Xinyu He, Xu Zhang, Junwei Han. 2026-10-04. Topology-Consistent Task Planning over Cellular Workflow Complexes for LLM-based Agents. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.07004

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