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Multi-agent debate has been shown to improve reasoning in large language models (LLMs). However, it is compute-intensive, requiring generation of long transcripts before answering questions. To address this inefficiency, we develop a…

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Much of the success of multi-agent debates depends on carefully choosing the right parameters. The decision-making protocol stands out as it can highly impact final model answers, depending on how decisions are reached. Systematic…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Lars Benedikt Kaesberg , Jonas Becker , Jan Philip Wahle , Terry Ruas , Bela Gipp

Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in real-world use cases may need to adapt to external natural language instructions that interrupt ongoing behavior and conflict with long-horizon objectives. However, conditioning rewards on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Wo Wei Lin , Ethan Rathbun , Enrico Marchesini Xiang Zhi Tan

In the latest advancements in multimodal learning, effectively addressing the spatial and semantic losses of visual data after encoding remains a critical challenge. This is because the performance of large multimodal models is positively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Shaojun E , Yuchen Yang , Jiaheng Wu , Yan Zhang , Tiejun Zhao , Ziyan Chen

Nowadays, single Large Language Model (LLM) struggles with critical issues such as hallucination and inadequate reasoning abilities. To mitigate these issues, Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) has emerged as an effective strategy, where LLM agents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yiliu Sun , Zicheng Zhao , Sheng Wan , Chen Gong

Large language models (LLMs) often display sycophancy, a tendency toward excessive agreeability. This behavior poses significant challenges for multi-agent debating systems (MADS) that rely on productive disagreement to refine arguments and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Binwei Yao , Chao Shang , Wanyu Du , Jianfeng He , Ruixue Lian , Yi Zhang , Hang Su , Sandesh Swamy , Yanjun Qi

Advancements in large language models offer strong potential for enhancing virtual simulated patients (VSPs) in medical education by providing scalable alternatives to resource-intensive traditional methods. However, current VSPs often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Victor De Marez , Jens Van Nooten , Luna De Bruyne , Walter Daelemans

Recent advances in task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems, driven by large language models (LLMs) with extensive API and tool integration, have enabled conversational agents to coordinate interleaved goals, maintain long-horizon context, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yifei Zhang , Hooshang Nayyeri , Rinat Khaziev , Emine Yilmaz , Gokhan Tur , Dilek Hakkani-Tür , Hari Thadakamalla

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in open-domain dialogues. However, current methods exhibit suboptimal performance in service dialogues, as they rely on noisy, low-quality human conversation data. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yuqin Dai , Ning Gao , Wei Zhang , Jie Wang , Zichen Luo , Jinpeng Wang , Yujie Wang , Ruiyuan Wu , Chaozheng Wang

Dialogue management (DM) decides the next action of a dialogue system according to the current dialogue state, and thus plays a central role in task-oriented dialogue systems. Since dialogue management requires to have access to not only…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Zheng Zhang , Minlie Huang , Zhongzhou Zhao , Feng Ji , Haiqing Chen , Xiaoyan Zhu

Communication is essential for coordination in \emph{cooperative} multi-agent reinforcement learning under partial observability, yet \emph{cross-timestep} delays cause messages to arrive multiple timesteps after generation, inducing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zihong Gao , Hongjian Liang , Lei Hao , Liangjun Ke

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is pivotal for the continuous evolution of GUI agents, yet existing evaluation paradigms face significant limitations. Rule-based methods suffer from poor scalability and cannot handle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chaoqun Cui , Jing Huang , Shijing Wang , Liming Zheng , Qingchao Kong , Zhixiong Zeng

By utilizing more computational resources at test-time, large language models (LLMs) can improve without additional training. One common strategy uses verifiers to evaluate candidate outputs. In this work, we propose a novel scaling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Shalev Lifshitz , Sheila A. McIlraith , Yilun Du

The reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) have been substantially improved by reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). At test time, collaborative reasoning through Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) has emerged as a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chenxi Liu , Yanshuo Chen , Ruibo Chen , Tianyi Xiong , Tong Zheng , Heng Huang

Integrated communication and control serves as a critical ingredient in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning. However, partial observability limitations will impair collaboration effectiveness, and a potential solution is to establish…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ziqiong Wang , Xiaoxue Yu , Rongpeng Li , Zhifeng Zhao

Communication stands as a potent mechanism to harmonize the behaviors of multiple agents. However, existing works primarily concentrate on broadcast communication, which not only lacks practicality, but also leads to information redundancy.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Chuxiong Sun , Zehua Zang , Jiabao Li , Jiangmeng Li , Xiao Xu , Rui Wang , Changwen Zheng

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit high reasoning capacity in medical question-answering, but their tendency to produce hallucinations and outdated knowledge poses critical risks in healthcare fields. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Wenhao Wu , Zhentao Tang , Yafu Li , Shixiong Kai , Mingxuan Yuan , Chunlin Chen , Zhi Wang

Prior work on training generative Visual Dialog models with reinforcement learning(Das et al.) has explored a Qbot-Abot image-guessing game and shown that this 'self-talk' approach can lead to improved performance at the downstream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Vishvak Murahari , Prithvijit Chattopadhyay , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Abhishek Das

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) is an important pre-processing step in a wide variety of speech processing systems. VAD should in a practical application be able to detect speech in both noisy and noise-free environments, while not…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Claus Meyer Larsen , Peter Koch , Zheng-Hua Tan

Task-oriented dialogues often require agents to enact complex, multi-step procedures in order to meet user requests. While large language models have found success automating these dialogues in constrained environments, their widespread…

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