arXiv AI

When Should AI Agents Ask? Clarification Requests Under Limited Human Attention

arXiv AI
6d ago

Goal-Aware Dynamic Multi-Agent Collaboration for Long-Horizon Tasks

The paper introduces Goal-Aware Dynamic Multi-Agent Collaboration (GAD), a framework that assigns distinct duties to separate agents with individualized contexts to tackle long-horizon tasks. It employs a growing execution graph to structure subtasks and their dependencies, ensuring each agent retains the original instruction, task goal, and acceptance conditions. GAD dynamically adapts collaboration and information sharing, using verification and recovery checks to monitor subtask results and overall task completion, providing feedback for repair when checks fail.

By Xu Shen, Lingyong Yan, Shuaiqiang Wang, Jianmin Wu, Zhikai Chen, Jiliang Tang, Jie Ren
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Oct 29

Goal-Aware Dynamic Multi-Agent Collaboration for Long-Horizon Tasks

The paper investigates how large language model agents handle long‑horizon tasks and finds that verification is crucial for success but often occurs too late. It shows that sharing a common context dilutes duty‑relevant information and that simply separating duties among agents is insufficient, as agents can lose sight of the overall goal. To address these issues, the authors propose Goal‑Aware Dynamic Multi‑Agent Collaboration (GAD), which uses an execution graph to organize subtasks, keeps each agent’s context focused on its specific goal, and dynamically adjusts task dependencies and information sharing based on execution evidence, with verification and recovery checks providing feedback for repair.

arXiv Computation and Language
2d ago

Decentralized Multi-Agent Coordination and Communication in Shared Codebases

Decentralized Multi-Agent Coordination and Communication in Shared Codebases introduces ParallACT, a benchmark for studying how coding agents with independent, human‑driven requests interact in shared repositories. The benchmark includes complementary tasks that require agents to cooperate via a shared interface, and contradictory tasks where agents’ edits conflict, leading to poor merged outcomes. Experiments show that a single‑agent oracle outperforms parallel agents, especially on contradictory tasks, and that merely notifying agents of each other or providing a communication channel only marginally improves performance at a token cost.

By Rishabh Mediratta, Lingyun Xiao, Peter Stone, Joydeep Biswas, Elias Stengel-Eskin