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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…

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LLM based agents have recently demonstrated strong potential in automating complex tasks, yet accurately predicting startup success remains an open challenge with few benchmarks and tailored frameworks. To address these limitations, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Xisen Wang , Yigit Ihlamur , Fuat Alican

As the focus in LLM-based coding shifts from static single-step code generation to multi-step agentic interaction with tools and environments, understanding which tasks will challenge agents and why becomes increasingly difficult. This is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Chris Ge , Daria Kryvosheieva , Daniel Fried , Uzay Girit , Kaivalya Hariharan

The convergence of Agentic AI and MAS enables a new paradigm for intelligent decision making in SMS. Traditional MAS architectures emphasize distributed coordination and specialized autonomy, while recent advances in agentic AI driven by…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Mojtaba A. Farahani , Md Irfan Khan , Thorsten Wuest

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated emergent common-sense reasoning and Theory of Mind (ToM) capabilities, making them promising candidates for developing coordination agents. This study introduces the LLM-Coordination Benchmark,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Saaket Agashe , Yue Fan , Anthony Reyna , Xin Eric Wang

Multi-agent systems achieve state-of-the-art outcomes through peer collaboration. However, when an agent in the pipeline silently drops a constraint, the system's final output may look correct even though the reasoning chain was quietly…

We present Collaborative Agent Reasoning Engineering (CARE), a disciplined methodology for engineering Large Language Model (LLM) agents in scientific domains. Unlike ad-hoc trial-and-error approaches, CARE specifies behavior, grounding,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Rahul Ramachandran , Nidhi Jha , Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian

When an LLM-based embodied agent fails at a household task, the culprit could be misidentified objects, forgotten sub-goals, or poor action sequencing -- yet existing benchmarks report only a single success rate, making it impossible to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yunn Kang Lim , Pengzhan Sun , Ziyi Bai , Xun Xu , Angela Yao , Xulei Yang , Shijie Li

Practitioners deploying multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems must currently choose between communication topologies such as chain, star, mesh, and richer variants without any pre-inference diagnostic for which topology will…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Ethan Parks , Dalal Alharthi

Disasters cause severe societal impacts, demanding rapid coordination of heterogeneous AI tools, from satellite analysis to flood prediction and damage assessment, into coherent multi-step workflows. As LLMs increasingly serve as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhitong Chen , Kai Yin , Weifeng Zhang , Zhiyuan Wang , Xiangjue Dong , Chengkai Liu , Zhewei Liu , Yiming Xiao , Ali Mostafavi , James Caverlee

This position paper argues that enforcing LLM agent safety within a single abstraction layer is not merely suboptimal but categorically insufficient for deployed LLM agents -- a structural consequence of how agent execution works, not a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 S. Bensalem , Y. Dong , M. Franzle , X. Huang , J. Kroger , D. Nickovic , A. Nouri , R. Roy , C. Wu

This paper introduces a novel framework for simulating and analyzing how uncooperative behaviors can destabilize or collapse LLM-based multi-agent systems. Our framework includes two key components: (1) a game theory-based taxonomy of…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Devang Kulshreshtha , Wanyu Du , Raghav Jain , Srikanth Doss , Hang Su , Sandesh Swamy , Yanjun Qi

LLM multi-agent systems often coordinate through natural-language dialogue or loosely structured shared memory, making intermediate state difficult to validate, attribute, and audit. We introduce PatchBoard, a schema-grounded collaboration…

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Evaluating the true forecasting ability of AI agents requires environments that are resistant to environments resistant to overfitting, free from centralized trust, and grounded in incentive-compatible scoring. Existing benchmarks either…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Maksym Nechepurenko , Pavel Shuvalov

Multi-agent systems built on large language models (LLMs) are difficult to reason about. Coordination errors such as deadlocks or type-mismatched messages are often hard to detect through testing. We introduce a domain-specific language for…

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Anticipating and adapting to failures is a key capability robots need to collaborate effectively with humans in complex domains. This continues to be a challenge despite the impressive performance of state of the art AI planning systems and…

When LLM agents autonomously design ML experiments, do they perform genuine architecture search -- or do they default to hyperparameter tuning within a narrow region of the design space? We answer this question by analyzing 10,469…

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Large language models demonstrate strong performance on mathematical reasoning benchmarks, yet remain surprisingly fragile to meaning-preserving surface perturbations. We systematically evaluate three open-weight LLMs, Mistral-7B,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Shou-Tzu Han , Rodrigue Rizk , KC Santosh

Recommendation systems must optimize multiple objectives while satisfying hard business constraints such as fairness and coverage. For example, an e-commerce platform may require every recommendation list to include items from multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Guilin Zhang , Kai Zhao , Jeffrey Friedman , Xu Chu

Multi-stage LLM pipelines that perform multi-agent debate, intrinsic self-correction, or retrieval-augmented verification exhibit puzzling aggregate behaviors: accuracy plateaus and reversals across rounds, non-replication of debate gains…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Prashanti Nilayam , Kiran Ramanna , Prashil Tumbade