Markets, Not Planners: Decentralized Orchestration of LLM Agents with Private Information
4.00T1 sourcearXiv cs.MA
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Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.23867.
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SummaryAgentLance is a market-based orchestration system for LLM agents where agents privately bid on tasks using their costs, an allocator selects winners via VCG-style payments, and winning agents can hierarchically subcontract subtasks. Experiments across reasoning, code, QA, and agentic tasks show improved specialization matching and cost efficiency over centralized planners, and expose manipulation vulnerabilities in single-planner systems.
Why it mattersProposes a concrete decentralized alternative to centralized agent orchestration, with empirical comparison to baselines and an explicit diagnosis of manipulation risks in single-planner allocators.
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