Eluna Automates Warehouse Operations with Agentic LLM System

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 encoding Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) as graph-guided, multi-agent workflows. It achieves high accuracy and meets production latency needs through episodic distillation and fine-tuning.

Warehouse operations are typically governed by intricate Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) that involve complex decision logic and interactions with multiple systems, all under strict time constraints. Traditional LLM agents often struggle with enforcing procedural compliance and can degrade under the context overload introduced by full SOP specifications. Researchers have developed Eluna, a production-deployed agentic system specifically designed for reliable SOP execution in warehouses. Eluna operates as a graph-guided, multi-agent framework where SOPs are encoded as directed acyclic graphs, allowing for progressive disclosure of information. Independent tasks are delegated to parallel sub-agents, each equipped with persistent code execution and live data access. To meet stringent production latency and accuracy requirements, Eluna employs asymmetric episodic distillation. A powerful teacher model is improved through error memories, and then a smaller student model is fine-tuned on these corrected trajectories, internalizing the improvements without incurring inference-time overhead. Benchmarks across 13 tasks and two production applications show Eluna's fine-tuned models matching or exceeding their teacher, outperforming larger off-the-shelf baselines, and achieving 94% expert agreement in ticket processing.

Why it matters

Logistics and operations professionals can significantly enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and improve throughput in warehouse management by automating complex, rule-based tasks with a reliable and scalable AI agent system.

How to implement this in your domain

  1. 1Evaluate Eluna's graph-guided, multi-agent framework for automating your warehouse Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
  2. 2Encode your existing SOPs into directed acyclic graphs to leverage Eluna's structured task execution.
  3. 3Consider implementing asymmetric episodic distillation to fine-tune smaller, efficient LLM agents for production deployment.
  4. 4Pilot Eluna on a specific warehouse task, such as ticket processing or inventory management, to assess its performance and integration.

Who benefits

LogisticsSupply ChainE-commerceManufacturingRetail

Key takeaways

  • Eluna is an agentic LLM system designed for reliable automation of complex warehouse operations.
  • It encodes SOPs as graph-guided, multi-agent workflows with progressive disclosure.
  • Asymmetric episodic distillation enables high accuracy and low latency for production needs.
  • Eluna outperforms larger off-the-shelf LLMs and achieves high expert agreement in real-world applications.

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

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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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