The Interaction Tax: When Communication Erases Diversity in Multi-Agent Teams
4.20T1 sourcearXiv cs.MA
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Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23541.
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SummaryA research paper studying multi-agent LLM teams across 11 verifier-scored optimization tasks. The authors find that full-solution interaction causes agents' outputs to converge within one round, eliminating the diversity that motivates using multiple models. Independent proposal generation avoids this collapse, and critique helps only when the violated rule is easy to identify and fix.
Why it mattersEmpirical finding that challenges the default multi-agent debate pattern and offers a concrete alternative: generate proposals independently before sharing. Useful for anyone designing agent orchestration.
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