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As full AI-based automation remains out of reach in most real-world applications, the focus has instead shifted to leveraging the strengths of both human and AI agents, creating effective collaborative systems. The rapid advances in this…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Steffen Holter , Mennatallah El-Assady

AI agents are emerging as a dominant workload in a wide range of applications, promising to be the vehicle that delivers the promised benefits of AI to enterprises and consumers. Unlike conventional software or static inference, agentic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zain Asgar , Michelle Nguyen , Sachin Katti

Workflows play a crucial role in enhancing enterprise efficiency by orchestrating complex processes with multiple tools or components. However, hand-crafted workflow construction requires expert knowledge, presenting significant technical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Hanchao Liu , Rongjun Li , Weimin Xiong , Ziyu Zhou , Wei Peng

Long-horizon workflow agents that operate effectively over extended periods are essential for truly autonomous systems. Their reliable execution critically depends on the ability to reason through ambiguous situations in which clarification…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-23 George Pu , Michael S. Lee , Udari Madhushani Sehwag , David J. Lee , Bryan Zhu , Yash Maurya , Mohit Raghavendra , Yuan Xue , Samuel Marc Denton

Recent advances in large language model-powered multi-agent systems have demonstrated remarkable collective intelligence through effective communication. However, existing approaches face two primary challenges: (i) \textit{Ineffective…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Heng Zhang , Yuling Shi , Xiaodong Gu , Zijian Zhang , Haochen You , Lubin Gan , Yilei Yuan , Jin Huang

Large language model-based web agents have shown strong potential in automating web interactions through advanced reasoning and instruction following. While retrieval-based memory derived from historical trajectories enables these agents to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yunteng Tan , Zhi Gao , Xinxiao Wu

AI agents have been developed for complex real-world tasks from coding to customer service. But AI agent evaluations suffer from many challenges that undermine our understanding of how well agents really work. We introduce the Holistic…

This technical brief introduces Deep Agent, an advanced autonomous AI system designed to manage complex multi-phase tasks through a novel hierarchical task management architecture. The system's foundation is built on our Hierarchical Task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Amy Yu , Erik Lebedev , Lincoln Everett , Xiaoxin Chen , Terry Chen

Long-horizon code generation requires sustained context and adaptive expertise across domains. Current multi-agent systems use static workflows that cannot adapt when runtime analysis reveals unanticipated complexity. We propose AgentSpawn,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Igor Costa

This paper proposes Co-TAP (T: Triple, A: Agent, P: Protocol), a three-layer agent interaction protocol designed to address the challenges faced by multi-agent systems across the three core dimensions of Interoperability, Interaction and…

The rise of multi-agent systems powered by large language models (LLMs) and specialized reasoning agents exposes fundamental limitations in today's data management architectures. Traditional databases and data fabrics were designed for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Ioana Giurgiu , Michael E. Nidd

In the field of MLLM-based GUI agents, compared to smartphones, the PC scenario not only features a more complex interactive environment, but also involves more intricate intra- and inter-app workflows. To address these issues, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Haowei Liu , Xi Zhang , Haiyang Xu , Yuyang Wanyan , Junyang Wang , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Chunfeng Yuan , Changsheng Xu , Weiming Hu , Fei Huang

The proliferation of large language models (LLMs) has accelerated the adoption of agent-based workflows, where multiple autonomous agents reason, invoke functions, and collaborate to compose complex data pipelines. However, current…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Zoi Kaoudi , Ioana Giurgiu

Large language models enable agents to autonomously perform tasks in open web environments. However, as hidden threats within the web evolve, web agents face the challenge of balancing task performance with emerging risks during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Yurun Chen , Xavier Hu , Yuhan Liu , Keting Yin , Juncheng Li , Zhuosheng Zhang , Shengyu Zhang

Multi-agent systems (MAS) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for orchestrating large language models (LLMs) and specialized tools to collaboratively address complex tasks. However, existing MAS frameworks often require manual workflow…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Yingxu Wang , Siwei Liu , Jinyuan Fang , Zaiqiao Meng

Recent advances in LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) show that workflows composed of multiple LLM agents with distinct roles, tools, and communication patterns can outperform single-LLM baselines on complex tasks. However, most frameworks…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jiawei Xu , Arief Koesdwiady , Sisong Bei , Yan Han , Baixiang Huang , Dakuo Wang , Yutong Chen , Zheshen Wang , Peihao Wang , Pan Li , Ying Ding

Collaborative perception aims to mitigate the limitations of single-agent perception, such as occlusions, by facilitating data exchange among multiple agents. However, most current works consider a homogeneous scenario where all agents use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yifan Lu , Yue Hu , Yiqi Zhong , Dequan Wang , Yanfeng Wang , Siheng Chen

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has paved the way for the development of highly capable autonomous agents. However, existing multi-agent frameworks often struggle with integrating diverse capable third-party agents due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Weize Chen , Ziming You , Ran Li , Yitong Guan , Chen Qian , Chenyang Zhao , Cheng Yang , Ruobing Xie , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems provide convenient and relevant ways to analyze, model, and simulate complex systems composed of a large number of entities that interact at different levels of abstraction. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Ahmad Esmaeili , John C. Gallagher , John A. Springer , Eric T. Matson

Due to the dynamic and unpredictable open-world setting, navigating complex environments in Minecraft poses significant challenges for multi-agent systems. Agents must interact with the environment and coordinate their actions with other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Zhonghan Zhao , Kewei Chen , Dongxu Guo , Wenhao Chai , Tian Ye , Yanting Zhang , Gaoang Wang