Eluna Automates Warehouse Operations with LLM Agents and SOP Compliance.

Ning Liu, Kalle Kujanp\"a\"a, Zhaoxuan Zhu, P Aditya Sreekar, Kaiwen Liu, Chuanneng Sun, Jorge Marchena Menendez, Matthew Bales, Tianyu Yang, Shahnawaz Alam, Rose Yu, Baoyuan Liu, Kristina Klinkner, Shervin Malmasi· July 13, 2026 View original

Summary

Eluna is a production-deployed agentic LLM system designed to automate complex warehouse operations by enforcing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) through a graph-guided, multi-agent framework. It uses asymmetric episodic distillation to train smaller, efficient models that match or exceed larger baselines in accuracy and latency.

A new agentic LLM system named Eluna has been developed and deployed to automate intricate warehouse operations. This system addresses the challenge of ensuring procedural compliance and managing context overload, common issues with existing LLM agents in such environments. Eluna structures Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as directed acyclic graphs, enabling progressive disclosure of information and delegating tasks to parallel sub-agents equipped with persistent code execution and live data access. To meet stringent production requirements for latency and accuracy, Eluna employs an innovative training method called asymmetric episodic distillation. A powerful teacher model is refined using error memories, and then a smaller student model is fine-tuned on these corrected trajectories, internalizing improvements without incurring high inference costs. This approach has demonstrated superior performance, matching or surpassing larger off-the-shelf LLM baselines and achieving high agreement with expert human performance on real-world applications.

Why it matters

This system offers a robust solution for automating complex, rule-bound industrial processes, significantly improving efficiency and compliance in environments like warehouses.

How to implement this in your domain

  1. 1Assess current warehouse SOPs for suitability with graph-guided agentic automation.
  2. 2Pilot Eluna or similar agentic systems for specific, well-defined warehouse tasks.
  3. 3Develop internal expertise in designing and managing multi-agent LLM systems for operational automation.
  4. 4Evaluate the potential for asymmetric episodic distillation to optimize other LLM-driven automation tools.

Who benefits

LogisticsManufacturingRetailSupply ChainE-commerce

Key takeaways

  • Eluna is an agentic LLM system automating warehouse operations with SOP compliance.
  • It uses a graph-guided, multi-agent framework for complex task execution.
  • Asymmetric episodic distillation enables efficient, accurate smaller models.
  • The system outperforms larger LLM baselines in production environments.

Original post by Ning Liu, Kalle Kujanp\"a\"a, Zhaoxuan Zhu, P Aditya Sreekar, Kaiwen Liu, Chuanneng Sun, Jorge Marchena Menendez, Matthew Bales, Tianyu Yang, Shahnawaz Alam, Rose Yu, Baoyuan Liu, Kristina Klinkner, Shervin Malmasi

"arXiv:2607.08960v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Warehouse operations are governed by Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that encode complex, multi-system decision logic, which must be executed reliably under strict time constraints, yet LLM agents lack mechanisms to enforce p…"

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Originally posted by Ning Liu, Kalle Kujanp\"a\"a, Zhaoxuan Zhu, P Aditya Sreekar, Kaiwen Liu, Chuanneng Sun, Jorge Marchena Menendez, Matthew Bales, Tianyu Yang, Shahnawaz Alam, Rose Yu, Baoyuan Liu, Kristina Klinkner, Shervin Malmasi on X · view source

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