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While Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) excel in complex reasoning, they suffer from the cascading impact of erroneous information from individual agents. Current solutions often resort to rigid structural engineering or expensive fine-tuning,…

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Multi-agent LLM frameworks are widely used to accelerate the development of agent systems powered by large language models (LLMs). These frameworks impose distinct architectural structures that govern how agents interact, store information,…

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