# Progress-Aware Distillation for Mitigating Stagnation in Small Language Model Agents > Source: > Published: 2026-10-20 15:30:13+00:00 While LLM-based agent systems have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in reasoning and solving complex real-world tasks, they also come with substantial token consumption and inference latency, limiting their practical deployment. To enhance the efficiency of agent systems, recent efforts have focu