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LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) have demonstrated significant potential in enhancing single LLMs to address complex and diverse tasks in practical applications. Despite considerable advancements, the field lacks a unified codebase that…

This study investigates large language model (LLM) -based multi-agent systems (MASs) as a promising approach to inventory management, which is a key component of supply chain management. Although these systems have gained considerable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Konosuke Yoshizato , Kazuma Shimizu , Ryota Higa , Takanobu Otsuka

This survey investigates foundational technologies essential for developing effective Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems. Aiming to answer how best to optimize these systems for collaborative, dynamic environments, we…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-04 R. M. Aratchige , W. M. K. S. Ilmini

As multi-agent systems (MAS) become increasingly complex, identifying the contributions of individual agents is critical for system optimization. However, existing approaches lack a rigorous, unified framework for credit assignment. In this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Mingyu Lu , Yushan Huang , Chris Lin , Su-In Lee

Recent advances in the intrinsic reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have given rise to LLM-based agent systems that exhibit near-human performance on a variety of automated tasks. However, although these systems share…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Bingxi Zhao , Lin Geng Foo , Ping Hu , Christian Theobalt , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Designing effective collaboration structure for multi-agent LLM systems to enhance collective reasoning is crucial yet remains under-explored. In this paper, we systematically investigate how collaborative reasoning performance is affected…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Baixuan Xu , Chunyang Li , Weiqi Wang , Wei Fan , Tianshi Zheng , Haochen Shi , Tao Fan , Yangqiu Song , Qiang Yang

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) has opened new possibilities for artificial intelligence, yet current implementations face significant challenges in resource management, task coordination, and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Junwei Yu , Yepeng Ding , Hiroyuki Sato

In this paper, we propose to incorporate the blackboard architecture into LLM multi-agent systems (MASs) so that (1) agents with various roles can share all the information and others' messages during the whole problem-solving process, (2)…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Bochen Han , Songmao Zhang

This contribution provides our comprehensive reflection on the contemporary agent technology, with a particular focus on the advancements driven by Large Language Models (LLM) vs classic Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). It delves into the models,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Costin Bădică , Amelia Bădică , Maria Ganzha , Mirjana Ivanović , Marcin Paprzycki , Dan Selişteanu , Zofia Wrona

Consider a multi-agent systems setup in which a principal (a supervisor agent) assigns subtasks to specialized agents and aggregates their responses into a single system-level output. A core property of such systems is information…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Paulius Rauba , Simonas Cepenas , Mihaela van der Schaar

Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) enable complex problem-solving but introduce significant debugging challenges, characterized by long interaction traces, inter-agent dependencies, and delayed error manifestation.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiazheng Li , Emine Yilmaz , Bei Chen , Dieu-Thu Le

Although large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language processing capabilities, their practical implementation as autonomous multi-agent systems (MAS) for industrial problem-solving encounters persistent barriers.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Hui Yi Leong , Yuheng Li , Yuqing Wu , Wenwen Ouyang , Wei Zhu , Jiechao Gao , Wei Han

While multi-agent systems (MAS) have demonstrated superior performance over single-agent approaches in complex reasoning tasks, they often suffer from significant computational inefficiencies. Existing frameworks typically deploy large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jingbo Wang , Sendong Zhao , Jiatong Liu , Haochun Wang , Wanting Li , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Research interest in autonomous agents is on the rise as an emerging topic. The notable achievements of Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the considerable potential to attain human-like intelligence in autonomous agents.…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Hung Du , Srikanth Thudumu , Rajesh Vasa , Kon Mouzakis

Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced autonomous agents' planning and decision-making, yet they struggle with complex tasks requiring diverse expertise and multi-step reasoning. Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) systems, introduced in NLP…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Jina Chun , Qihong Chen , Jiawei Li , Iftekhar Ahmed

Multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) systems have been leading the way in applied LLM research across a number of fields. One notable area is software development, where researchers have advanced the automation of code implementation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Vali Tawosi , Keshav Ramani , Salwa Alamir , Xiaomo Liu

Multi-agent systems (MAS), leveraging the remarkable capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), show great potential in addressing complex tasks. In this context, integrating MAS with legal tasks is a crucial step. While previous studies…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Huihao Jing , Wenbin Hu , Hongyu Luo , Jianhui Yang , Wei Fan , Haoran Li , Yangqiu Song

Animating and simulating crowds using an agent-based approach is a well-established area where every agent in the crowd is individually controlled such that global human-like behaviour emerges. We observe that human navigation and movement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yibo Liu , Liam Shatzel , Brandon Haworth , Teseo Schneider

Recursive or looped language models have recently emerged as a new scaling axis by iteratively refining the same model computation over latent states to deepen reasoning. We extend such scaling principle from a single model to multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Xiyuan Yang , Jiaru Zou , Rui Pan , Ruizhong Qiu , Pan Lu , Shizhe Diao , Jindong Jiang , Hanghang Tong , Tong Zhang , Markus J. Buehler , Jingrui He , James Zou

Multi-agent systems (MAS), composed of networks of two or more autonomous AI agents, have become increasingly popular in production deployments, yet introduce security risks that do not arise in single-agent settings. Even if individual…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ben Hagag , William L. Anderson , Christian Schroeder de Witt , Sarah Scheffler