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Combining large language models during training or at inference time has shown substantial performance gain over component LLMs. This paper presents LLM-TOPLA, a diversity-optimized LLM ensemble method with three unique properties: (i) We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Selim Furkan Tekin , Fatih Ilhan , Tiansheng Huang , Sihao Hu , Ling Liu

Despite huge advances, LLMs still lack convenient and reliable methods to quantify the uncertainty in their responses, making them difficult to trust in high-stakes applications. One of the simplest approaches to eliciting more accurate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Aparna Nair-Kanneganti , Trevor J. Chan , Shir Goldfinger , Emily Mackay , Brian Anthony , Alison Pouch

An agent observes the set of available projects and proposes some, but not necessarily all, of them. A principal chooses one or none from the proposed set. We solve for a mechanism that minimizes the principal's worst-case regret. We…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2023-09-04 Yingni Guo , Eran Shmaya

As large-scale multi-agent systems evolve, the communication protocol layer has become a critical yet under-evaluated factor shaping performance and reliability. Despite the existence of diverse protocols (A2A, ACP, ANP, Agora, etc.),…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hongyi Du , Jiaqi Su , Jisen Li , Lijie Ding , Yingxuan Yang , Peixuan Han , Xiangru Tang , Kunlun Zhu , Jiaxuan You

The effectiveness of multi-agent LLM deliberation depends not only on the agents' individual predictions, but also on how they communicate and collaborate. We study this mechanism through the lens of Friedkin-Johnsen (FJ) opinion dynamics,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Franka Bause , Jonas Niederle , Martin Pawelczyk , Rebekka Burkholz

Social biases can manifest in language agency. However, very limited research has investigated such biases in Large Language Model (LLM)-generated content. In addition, previous works often rely on string-matching techniques to identify…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yixin Wan , Kai-Wei Chang

Modern large language models (LLMs) have exhibited cooperative synergy on complex task-solving, and collective decision-making (CDM) is a pivotal component in LLM-based multi-agent collaboration frameworks. Our survey on 52 recent such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xiutian Zhao , Ke Wang , Wei Peng

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities, yet selecting the most reliable response from multiple LLMs remains a challenge, particularly in resource-constrained settings. Existing approaches often depend on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Aakriti Agrawal , Rohith Aralikatti , Anirudh Satheesh , Souradip Chakraborty , Amrit Singh Bedi , Furong Huang

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has enabled the construction of multi-agent systems to solve complex tasks by dividing responsibilities among specialized agents, such as a planning agent for subgoal generation and a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Minghang Zhu , Zhengliang Shi , Zhiwei Xu , Shiguang Wu , Lingjie Wang , Pengjie Ren , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen

The purpose of our paper is to develop a unified multi-agent architecture that automates end-to-end machine learning (ML) pipeline generation from datasets and natural-language (NL) goals, improving efficiency, robustness and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Adela Bara , Gabriela Dobrita , Simona-Vasilica Oprea

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

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly used to perform complex, multi-step workflows in regulated settings such as compliance and due diligence. However, many agentic architectures rely primarily on prompt engineering of a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Ananya Joshi , Michael Rudow

We consider the fair division of indivisible items among $n$ agents with additive non-negative normalized valuations, with the goal of obtaining high value guarantees, that is, close to the proportional share for each agent. We prove that…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sushmita Gupta , Pallavi Jain , Sanjay Seetharaman , Meirav Zehavi

Recent work shows that pricing with symmetric LLM agents leads to algorithmic collusion. We show that collusion is fragile under the heterogeneity typical of real deployments. In a stylized repeated-pricing model, heterogeneity in patience…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jussi Keppo , Yuze Li , Gerry Tsoukalas , Nuo Yuan

Oversampling is one of the most widely used approaches for addressing imbalanced classification. The core idea is to generate additional minority samples to rebalance the dataset. Most existing methods, such as SMOTE, require converting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Dang Nguyen , Sunil Gupta , Kien Do , Thin Nguyen , Taylor Braund , Alexis Whitton , Svetha Venkatesh

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle with complex reasoning tasks due to their limitations in addressing the vast reasoning space and inherent ambiguities of natural language. We propose the Mixture-of-Search-Agents (MoSA) paradigm,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Sen Yang , Yafu Li , Wai Lam , Yu Cheng

Multi-agent LLM workflows -- systems composed of multiple role-specific LLM calls -- often outperform single-prompt baselines, but they remain difficult to debug and refine. Failures can originate from subtle errors in intermediate outputs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kazuki Kawamura , Satoshi Waki , Kei Tateno

LLM-based agent judges are an emerging approach to evaluating conversational AI, yet a fundamental uncertainty remains: can we trust their assessments, and if so, how many are needed? Through 960 sessions with two model pairs across 15…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 HyunJoon Jung , William Na

Multi-LLM collaboration promises accurate, robust, and context-aware solutions, yet existing approaches rely on implicit selection and output assessment without analyzing whether collaborating models truly complement or conflict. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Huascar Sanchez , Briland Hitaj

This paper introduces Patched MOA (Mixture of Agents), an inference optimization technique that significantly enhances the performance of large language models (LLMs) across diverse software development tasks. We evaluate three inference…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Asankhaya Sharma