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Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled collaborative Multi-Agent (MA) systems, where interacting agents improve performance through diverse reasoning and iterative refinement. However, these systems remain vulnerable to error…

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Multi-agent systems (MAS) powered by large language models (LLMs) hold significant promise for solving complex decision-making tasks. However, the core process of collaborative decision-making (CDM) within these systems remains…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Xuyang Zhao , Shiwan Zhao , Hualong Yu , Liting Zhang , Qicheng Li

Existing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) typically rely on homogeneous model configurations, failing to exploit the diverse expertise inherent in different post-trained architectures. We propose Team-of-Thoughts, a heterogeneous MAS framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jeffrey T. H. Wong , Zixi Zhang , Junyi Liu , Yiren Zhao

With the recent rapid advancement of Agentic Intelligence, agentic tool use in LLMs has become increasingly important. During multi-turn interactions between agents and users, the dynamic, uncertain, and stochastic nature of user demands…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Weikang Zhao , Xili Wang , Chengdi Ma , Lingbin Kong , Zhaohua Yang , Mingxiang Tuo , Xiaowei Shi , Yitao Zhai , Xunliang Cai

Language model agents often appear capable of self-recovery after failing tool call executions, yet this behavior lacks a formal explanation. We present a predictive theory that resolves this gap by showing that recoverability follows a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Sri Vatsa Vuddanti , Satwik Kumar Chittiprolu

Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly relies on multi-agent architectures that blend visual and language understanding. Yet, a pressing challenge remains: How can we trust these agents especially in zero-shot settings with no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis , Ranjan Sapkota , Manoj Karkee , Nikolaos D. Tselikas

Safe reinforcement learning (RL) typically asks $\textit{what}$ an agent should do. We ask $\textit{when}$ it needs to act, and show that a single policy can jointly learn control inputs and communication-efficient timing decisions under a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Adam Haroon , Erick J. Rodríguez-Seda , Cody Fleming , Tristan Schuler

LLM-powered Multi-Agent Systems (LLM-MAS) unlock new potentials in distributed reasoning, collaboration, and task generalization but also introduce additional risks due to unguaranteed agreement, cascading uncertainty, and adversarial…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Jinwei Hu , Yi Dong , Shuang Ao , Zhuoyun Li , Boxuan Wang , Lokesh Singh , Guangliang Cheng , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Xiaowei Huang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as the predominant paradigm for grounding Large Language Model outputs in factual knowledge, effectively mitigating hallucinations. However, conventional RAG systems operate under a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Sergii Voloshyn

Recent research on Reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sought to further enhance their performance by integrating meta-thinking -- enabling models to monitor, evaluate, and control their reasoning processes for more adaptive and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Ziyu Wan , Yunxiang Li , Xiaoyu Wen , Yan Song , Hanjing Wang , Linyi Yang , Mark Schmidt , Jun Wang , Weinan Zhang , Shuyue Hu , Ying Wen

Analysing learning in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) environments is challenging, in particular with respect to \textit{individual} decision-making. Practitioners frequently struggle to compare training runs due to the inherent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-29 James Rudd-Jones , María Pérez-Ortiz , Mirco Musolesi

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has recently become a very popular task for Large Language Models (LLMs). Evaluating them on multi-turn RAG conversations, where the system is asked to generate a response to a question in the context of…

Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Agentic RAG) has become a widely adopted paradigm for multi-hop question answering and complex knowledge reasoning, where retrieval and reasoning are interleaved at inference time. As reasoning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shuguang Jiao , Chengkai Huang , Shuhan Qi , Xuan Wang , Yifan Li , Lina Yao

With the increasing demand for step-wise, cross-modal, and knowledge-grounded reasoning, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are evolving beyond the traditional fixed retrieve-then-generate paradigm toward more sophisticated agentic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xuying Ning , Dongqi Fu , Tianxin Wei , Mengting Ai , Jiaru Zou , Ting-Wei Li , Hanghang Tong , Yada Zhu , Hendrik Hamann , Jingrui He

Work-in-Progress (WiP) prediction is critical for predictive process monitoring, enabling accurate anticipation of workload fluctuations and optimized operational planning. This paper proposes a retrieval-augmented, multi-agent framework…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Yousef Mehrdad Bibalan , Behrouz Far , Mohammad Moshirpour , Bahareh Ghiyasian

Single-step retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) provides an efficient way to incorporate external information for simple question answering tasks but struggles with complex questions. Agentic RAG extends this paradigm by replacing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yijia Zheng , Marcel Worring

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

Distributed LLM serving systems optimize per-request latency and throughput. However, under long-context workloads, inference accuracy becomes more variable. When incorrect responses trigger retries, accuracy directly translates into…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Takeshi Yoshimura , Valentijn Dymphnus van de Beek , Tatsuhiro Chiba

Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have demonstrated remarkable collaborative reasoning capabilities but introduce new attack surfaces, such as the sleeper agent, which behave benignly during routine operation and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yu Li , Qiang Hu , Yao Zhang , Lili Quan , Jiongchi Yu , Junjie Wang

We study multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) in a stochastic network of agents. The objective is to find localized policies that maximize the (discounted) global reward. In general, scalability is a challenge in this setting because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Yiheng Lin , Guannan Qu , Longbo Huang , Adam Wierman