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Multi-agent systems (MAS) solve complex problems through coordinated autonomous entities with individual decision-making capabilities. While Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) enables these agents to learn intelligent strategies, it…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Xinren Zhang , Sixi Cheng , Zixin Zhong , Jiadong Yu

Cooperation is fundamental in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), often requiring agents to balance individual gains with collective rewards. In this regard, this paper aims to investigate strategies to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Vaigarai Sathi , Sabahat Shaik , Jaswanth Nidamanuri

Multi-agent systems (MAS) composed of large language models often exhibit improved problem-solving performance despite operating on identical information. In this work, we provide a formal explanation for this phenomenon grounded in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Christopher Scofield

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities across various domains. However, standalone agents frequently encounter limitations when handling complex tasks that demand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Rennai Qiu , Chen Qian , Ran Li , Yufan Dang , Weize Chen , Cheng Yang , Yingli Zhang , Ye Tian , Xuantang Xiong , Lei Han , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities in mathematical and scientific tasks. To enhance complex reasoning, multi-agent systems have been proposed to harness the collective intelligence of LLM agents.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Zhenyu Bi , Meng Lu , Yang Li , Swastik Roy , Weijie Guan , Morteza Ziyadi , Xuan Wang

Multi-agent systems (MAS) based on large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in collaborative problem-solving. However, they still face substantial challenges of low communication efficiency and suboptimal task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhexuan Wang , Yutong Wang , Xuebo Liu , Liang Ding , Miao Zhang , Jie Liu , Min Zhang

Collective action against algorithmic systems provides an opportunity for a small group of individuals to strategically manipulate their data to get specific outcomes, from classification to recommendation models. This effectiveness will…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-20 Aditya Karan , Prabhat Kalle , Nicholas Vincent , Hari Sundaram

For a binary choice problem, the spatial coordination of decisions in an agent community is investigated both analytically and by means of stochastic computer simulations. The individual decisions are based on different local information…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Frank Schweitzer , Joerg Zimmermann , Heinz Muehlenbein

Reaching consensus is key to multi-agent coordination. To accomplish a cooperative task, agents need to coherently select optimal joint actions to maximize the team reward. However, current cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Liangzhou Wang , Kaiwen Zhu , Fengming Zhu , Xinghu Yao , Shujie Zhang , Deheng Ye , Haobo Fu , Qiang Fu , Wei Yang

We design two mechanisms that ensure that the majority preferred option wins in all equilibria. The first one is a simultaneous game where agents choose other agents to cooperate with on top of the vote for an alternative, thus overcoming…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-10-12 Kirneva Margarita , Núñez Matías

In this paper, we introduce Group-MATES, an efficient group-level data selection approach to optimize the speed-quality frontier of language model pretraining. Specifically, Group-MATES parameterizes costly group-level selection with a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Zichun Yu , Fei Peng , Jie Lei , Arnold Overwijk , Wen-tau Yih , Chenyan Xiong

This paper proposes a group deliberation oriented multi-agent conversational model to address the limitations of single large language models in complex reasoning tasks. The model adopts a three-level role division architecture consisting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Zheyu Shi , Dong Qiu , Shanlong Yu

Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) is a collaborative framework in which multiple agents iteratively refine solutions through the generation of reasoning and alternating critique cycles. Current work primarily optimizes intra-round topologies and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yiqing Liu , Hantao Yao , Wu Liu , Allen He , Yongdong Zhang

Multi-agent systems require effective coordination between groups and individuals to achieve common goals. However, current multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods primarily focus on improving individual policies and do not…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Jingqing Ruan , Xiaotian Hao , Dong Li , Hangyu Mao

We consider an agent community wishing to decide on several binary issues by means of issue-by-issue majority voting. For each issue and each agent, one of the two options is better than the other. However, some of the agents may be…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Shiri Alouf-Heffetz , Laurent Bulteau , Edith Elkind , Nimrod Talmon , Nicholas Teh

While multi-agent systems (MAS) promise elevated intelligence through coordination of agents, current approaches to automatic MAS design under-deliver. Such shortcomings stem from two key factors: (1) methodological complexity - agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zixuan Ke , Yifei Ming , Austin Xu , Ryan Chin , Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Prathyusha Jwalapuram , Jiayu Wang , Semih Yavuz , Caiming Xiong , Shafiq Joty

With the rapid development of artificial intelligence, intelligent decision-making techniques have gradually surpassed human levels in various human-machine competitions, especially in complex multi-agent cooperative task scenarios.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Weiqiang Jin , Hongyang Du , Biao Zhao , Xingwu Tian , Bohang Shi , Guang Yang

We study a model of consensus decision making, in which a finite group of Bayesian agents has to choose between one of two courses of action. Each member of the group has a private and independent signal at his or her disposal, giving some…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Elchanan Mossel , Omer Tamuz

Evaluating the quality of multi-turn chatbot interactions remains challenging, as most existing methods assess interactions at the turn level without addressing whether a user's overarching goal was fulfilled. A ``goal'' here refers to an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Deepak Babu Piskala , Sharlene Chen , Udita Patel , Parul Kalra , Rafael Castrillo

Citizen-focused democratic processes where participants deliberate on alternatives and then vote to make the final decision are increasingly popular today. While the computational social choice literature has extensively investigated voting…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Kanav Mehra , Nanda Kishore Sreenivas , Kate Larson