RQ3 · Churn resilience
Can a local-LLM
agent beat baselines
when nodes die?
Throughput vs baseline
CI [−1.6%, +0.4%]
−0.6%
Added latency
within budget, but no win
−13 ms
Rebuild fingerprint
gate wanted AUC ≤ 0.60
0.59
The qwen2.5:3b agent (local Ollama, $0)
did not beat a coin flip. double-null
A null is a result. We report it.