Credit Where Credit Is Due: Contrastive Attribution Topology Search for Multi-Agent Systems
4.40T1 sourcearXiv cs.MA
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Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.29292.
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SummaryProposes CATS, a method that searches for compact agent teams within an LLM multi-agent supergraph by using an LLM attributer to compare execution traces and assign credit to individual agents. On BigCodeBench, improves mean accuracy by 5.3 points over score-only search with 54% fewer tokens; prunes all adversarial agents on HotpotQA.
Why it mattersConcrete method for pruning multi-agent topologies using per-agent credit assignment, with measured token savings and adversarial-agent exclusion across three benchmarks.
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