arXiv AI

DeAR: Decentralized Agentic Reasoning via Capability Grounding and Collaborative Thought Navigation

DeAR (Decentralized Agentic Reasoning) is a new framework that replaces centralized protocols with autonomous peer‑to‑peer collaboration for agentic reasoning. It introduces three key mechanisms: decentralized capability grounding for agent specialization, thought map navigation for targeted peer interactions, and topology updates for adaptive error correction. Across nine multimodal reasoning and text‑based QA benchmarks, DeAR consistently outperforms recent baseline methods, demonstrating that decentralized and adaptive collaboration improves accuracy in knowledge‑intensive reasoning tasks.

arXiv AI
Aug 24

Two Heads are Better Than One: Test-time Scaling of Multi-agent Collaborative Reasoning

The paper introduces a method to improve test-time scaling (TTS) for large language models by using multi-agent systems (MAS) to split long reasoning chains into manageable contexts. A new dataset, M500, containing 500 multi-agent collaborative reasoning traces, is used to fine‑tune open‑source models, enabling them to learn collaborative patterns and outperform their base versions. An adaptive scaling strategy with a "CEO" agent is proposed to dynamically guide reasoning depth, and experiments in the AgentVerse framework confirm the effectiveness of the approach.

By Can Jin, Hongwu Peng, Qixin Zhang, Yujin Tang, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Tong Che
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Optimal-Agent-Selection: State-Aware Routing Framework for Efficient Multi-Agent Collaboration

arXiv:2511. 02200v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The emergence of multi-agent systems powered by large language models (LLMs) has unlocked new frontiers in complex task-solving, enabling diverse agents to integrate unique expertise, collaborate flexibly, and address challenges unattainable for individual models.

By Jingbo Wang, Sendong Zhao, Haochun Wang, Yuzheng Fan, Ting Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Adaptive Latent Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 02871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large reasoning models improve performance by generating extended chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but this behavior becomes inefficient when applied to LLM agents.

By Dongwon Jung, Peng Shi, Yi Zhang, Junshan Zhang, Muhao Chen
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

A Survey of Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models: Towards Recursively Self-Improving and Collective Agents

arXiv:2601.12538v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reasoning is a fundamental cognitive process underlying inference, problem-solving, and decision-making. While large language models (LLMs) d...

By Tianxin Wei, Ting-Wei Li, Zhining Liu, Xuying Ning, Ze Yang, Jiaru Zou, Zhichen Zeng, Ruizhong Qiu, Xiao Lin, Dongqi Fu, Zihao Li, Mengting Ai, Duo Zhou, Wenxuan Bao, Yunzhe Li, Gaotang Li, Cheng Qian, Yu Wang, Xiangru Tang, Yin Xiao, Liri Fang, Hui Liu, Xianfeng Tang, Yuji Zhang, Chi Wang, Jiaxuan You, Heng Ji, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Collaborative Memory for Multi-Agent VLM Systems

The paper introduces a framework for collaborative memory in multi‑agent vision‑language model (VLM) systems, addressing how agents share and update visual context across distributed perception and reasoning tasks. It outlines a memory hierarchy, cross‑agent sharing protocols, and consistency mechanisms to reconcile differing interpretations and recover missing visual information. The design emphasizes preserving not only raw images or textual summaries but also the dependencies among observations, interpretations, and subsequent reasoning, thereby shaping information flow across agents.

By Huixin Zhang, Shao-Jun Xia, Di Wang, Liangxi Liu, Hainan Xiong, Zihao Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

XYEval: Agents say yes to bad advice

arXiv:2609.23939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective communication between users and AI agents is essential for human-AI collaboration. The XY problem is a well-known communication pitfall where...

By Zhengxuan Wu, Yuxuan Li, Oyvind Tafjord, Been Kim