SyncPlan: Long-Horizon LLM Coordination with Explicit Synchronization and Adaptive Correction
Abstract
LLM-based multi-agent coordination faces a fundamental trade-off between efficiency and adaptivity in dynamic environments. Existing approaches typically rely on repeated LLM invocations or multi-round communication to adapt decisions during execution, introducing substantial latency and making coordination vulnerable to asynchronous progress and environmental changes. Conversely, one-shot planning reduces coordination overhead but produces open-loop plans that can quickly become stale or fail when actions depend on other agents and the environment. We introduce SyncPlan, a plan-execute-correct framework for long-horizon coordination through explicit synchronization and adaptive correction. Given the state and team-level task, a centralized LLM coordinator generates per-agent action chains in a single planning call. During execution, explicit wait primitives and deadlock detection enforce inter-agent and agent-environment dependencies, while a lightweight Plan Staleness Detector continuously assesses the remaining plan and triggers replanning when environmental changes invalidate its assumptions. We further optimize the coordinator through SFT and planning-oriented RL with dense task progress and outcome-level execution feedback. Experiments on the public Overcooked benchmark and the complex Honor of Kings environment show that SyncPlan achieves state-of-the-art task success rates while using less than 0.05% of the wall-clock runtime compared with existing LLM-based coordinators. Code and datasets will be made publicly available.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2608.01652,
title = {SyncPlan: Long-Horizon LLM Coordination with Explicit Synchronization and Adaptive Correction},
author = {Shen You and Xiaoming Zhu and Weining Weng and Hefei Mei and Weixuan Wang and Zhongshen Li and Zeji LI and Ye-Wen Wang and Zijun Liao and Juchao Zhuo and Yang Wei and Fuhao Qiu and Siqin Li and Zhenjie Lian and Danei Gong and Junkai Ji and Xiangtao Li and Qiuzhen Lin and Liang Wang and Ka-Chun Wong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.01652},
year = {2026}
}