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LLM-based autonomous agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in reasoning, planning, and tool use, yet remain limited when tasks require sustained coordination across roles, tools, and environments. Multi-agent systems address this…

Background: Cognitive biases in clinical decision-making significantly contribute to errors in diagnosis and suboptimal patient outcomes. Addressing these biases presents a formidable challenge in the medical field. Objective: This study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yu He Ke , Rui Yang , Sui An Lie , Taylor Xin Yi Lim , Hairil Rizal Abdullah , Daniel Shu Wei Ting , Nan Liu

Current approaches to multi-agent cooperation rely heavily on centralized mechanisms or explicit communication protocols to ensure convergence. This paper studies the problem of distributed multi-agent learning without resorting to…

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Recent work has shown that, in classification tasks, it is possible to design decision support systems that do not require human experts to understand when to cede agency to a classifier or when to exercise their own agency to achieve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Eleni Straitouri , Stratis Tsirtsis , Ander Artola Velasco , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez

Many machine learning problems can be formulated as consensus optimization problems which can be solved efficiently via a cooperative multi-agent system. However, the agents in the system can be unreliable due to a variety of reasons:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Qunwei Li , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn , Priyadip Ray , Pramod K. Varshney

Clinical trials constitute a critical yet exceptionally challenging and costly stage of drug development (\$2.6B per drug), where protocols are encoded as complex natural language documents, motivating the use of AI systems beyond manual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Sixue Xing , Kerui Wu , Xuanye Xia , Meng Jiang , Jintai Chen , Tianfan Fu

Fairness in medical agents is becoming critical as tool-using clinical AI systems orchestrate specialized vision and language modules for tasks such as chest X-ray question answering. While these medical AI agents can improve flexibility,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zikang Xu , Ruinan Jin , Xiaoxiao Li

Large language model (LLM) systems are increasingly used to support high-stakes decision-making, but they typically perform worse when the available evidence is internally inconsistent. Such a scenario exists in real-world healthcare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Haochen Liu , Weien Li , Rui Song , Zeyu Li , Chun Jason Xue , Xiao-Yang Liu , Sam Nallaperuma , Xue Liu , Ye Yuan

Autonomous agents for desktop automation struggle with complex multi-step tasks due to poor coordination and inadequate quality control. We introduce Agentic Lybic, a novel multi-agent system where the entire architecture operates as a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Liangxuan Guo , Bin Zhu , Qingqian Tao , Kangning Liu , Xun Zhao , Xianzhe Qin , Jin Gao , Guangfu Hao

We present Doctorina MedBench, a comprehensive evaluation framework for agent-based medical AI based on the simulation of realistic physician-patient interactions. Unlike traditional medical benchmarks that rely on solving standardized test…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Anna Kozlova , Stanislau Salavei , Pavel Satalkin , Hanna Plotnitskaya , Sergey Parfenyuk

AI systems are increasingly deployed in high-stakes contexts (medical diagnosis, legal research, financial analysis) under the assumption they can be governed by norms. This paper demonstrates that the assumption is formally invalid for…

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Building effective clinical decision support systems requires the synthesis of complex heterogeneous multimodal data. Such modalities include temporal electronic health records data, medical images, radiology reports, and clinical notes.…

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The deployment of AI models in clinical practice faces a critical challenge: models achieving expert-level performance on benchmarks can fail catastrophically when confronted with real-world variations in medical imaging. Minor shifts in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Lukas Kuhn , Florian Buettner

We propose a multi-agent system that enables groups of agents to collaborate and work autonomously to execute tasks. Groups can work in a decentralized manner and can adapt to dynamic changes in the environment. Groups of agents solve…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Karishma , Shrisha Rao

The prospect of combining human operators and virtual agents (bots) into an effective hybrid system that provides proper customer service to clients is promising yet challenging. The hybrid system decreases the customers' frustration when…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Yaniv Oshrat , Yonatan Aumann , Tal Hollander , Oleg Maksimov , Anita Ostroumov , Natali Shechtman , Sarit Kraus

Recent progress in language modeling has largely relied on scaling model size, yet larger models do not reliably improve performance on tasks requiring multi-step reasoning and tool use. Multi-agent collaboration offers a potential…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Agata Żywot , Xinyi Chen , Yifei Yuan , Anders Søgaard , Maarten de Rijke

Therapy recommendation for chronic patients with multimorbidity is challenging due to risks of treatment conflicts. Existing decision support systems face scalability limitations. Inspired by the way in which general practitioners (GP)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Yicong Wu , Ting Chen , Irit Hochberg , Zhoujian Sun , Ruth Edry , Zhengxing Huang , Mor Peleg

Artificial intelligence has shown promise in medical imaging, yet most existing systems lack flexibility, interpretability, and adaptability - challenges especially pronounced in ophthalmology, where diverse imaging modalities are…