PerfGuard: A Performance-Aware Agent for Visual Content Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22571v1
• Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:12:19 GMT
• Title: PerfGuard: A Performance-Aware Agent for Visual Content Generation
• Authors: Zhipeng Chen, Zhongrui Zhang, Chao Zhang, Yifan Xu, Lan Yang, Jun Liu, Ke Li, Yi-Zhe Song,
• Abstract summary: PerfGuard is a performance-aware agent framework for visual content generation.<n>It integrates tool performance boundaries into task planning and scheduling.<n>It has advantages in tool selection accuracy, execution reliability, and alignment with user intent.
• Score: 53.591105729011595
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The advancement of Large Language Model (LLM)-powered agents has enabled automated task processing through reasoning and tool invocation capabilities. However, existing frameworks often operate under the idealized assumption that tool executions are invariably successful, relying solely on textual descriptions that fail to distinguish precise performance boundaries and cannot adapt to iterative tool updates. This gap introduces uncertainty in planning and execution, particularly in domains like visual content generation (AIGC), where nuanced tool performance significantly impacts outcomes. To address this, we propose PerfGuard, a performance-aware agent framework for visual content generation that systematically models tool performance boundaries and integrates them into task planning and scheduling. Our framework introduces three core mechanisms: (1) Performance-Aware Selection Modeling (PASM), which replaces generic tool descriptions with a multi-dimensional scoring system based on fine-grained performance evaluations; (2) Adaptive Preference Update (APU), which dynamically optimizes tool selection by comparing theoretical rankings with actual execution rankings; and (3) Capability-Aligned Planning Optimization (CAPO), which guides the planner to generate subtasks aligned with performance-aware strategies. Experimental comparisons against state-of-the-art methods demonstrate PerfGuard's advantages in tool selection accuracy, execution reliability, and alignment with user intent, validating its robustness and practical utility for complex AIGC tasks. The project code is available at https://github.com/FelixChan9527/PerfGuard.

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