Ensuring fairness and quality with speculative decoding, procedural verifiers, and Best-of-N sampling.
To further amplify the efficiency and reliability of the MindLab platform, the Orchestrator employs a range of advanced, market-validated techniques for aggregating and verifying the work of its agentic workforce.
In this workflow, the Orchestrator first routes a task to a fast, lightweight “draft” agent (e.g., a highly quantized 7B parameter model). This agent generates a candidate sequence of actions or text at extremely low latency. This draft is then passed to a more powerful, but slower, “verifier” agent (e.g., a GPT-4o class model).The verifier’s task is not to generate from scratch, but simply to check and, if necessary, correct the draft. Because verification is a computationally simpler task than generation, this can dramatically reduce the end-to-end latency and cost of the entire workflow—often doubling the effective tokens per second—while maintaining the quality standard of the larger model.
For tasks in domains with deterministic outputs, such as code generation or financial calculations, the Orchestrator uses procedural verifiers. A code-writing agent’s output can be passed to a compiler and a suite of unit tests. A financial agent’s calculations can be checked by a traditional calculator tool. This “generate then verify” loop provides a level of reliability that no single generative model can currently achieve on its own.
For critical or creative tasks, the Orchestrator manages the “Best-of-N” sampling process. It can route the same prompt to multiple agents and then use a “judge” agent to select the best response. This is made economically viable by dynamically pruning unpromising reasoning paths early, achieving the quality benefits of a large sample size without the high latency and computational cost.