arXiv Computation and Language

MoCo: A One-Stop Shop for Model Collaboration Research

MoCo is a Python library that consolidates 26 model collaboration methods for language models, enabling execution, benchmarking, and comparison at scale. It includes 25 evaluation datasets across reasoning, QA, code, safety, and more, allowing users to add their own data. Experiments show that most collaboration strategies outperform non‑collaborative models in 61.0% of settings, with top methods achieving up to 25.8% improvement.

arXiv AI
Aug 26

Efficient LLM Collaboration via Planning

arXiv:2506.11578v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance, ranging from simple to complex tasks. However, while large models achi...

By Byeongchan Lee, Jonghoon Lee, Dongyoung Kim, Jaehyung Kim, Kyungjoon Park, Dongjun Lee, Jinwoo Shin
arXiv AI
Oct 12

Collaborative Learning and Reasoning over Model Slices

The paper introduces collaborative learning for large language models, where a single large model is replaced by smaller, heterogeneous models—called model slices—under a comparable parameter budget. By enabling prior reasoning to be reassessed across different model parameterizations and employing pyramid supervision that blends protocol distillation with step‑level supervision, the authors refine reasoning and interaction decisions during collaboration. Experiments on multi‑hop question answering, mathematical reasoning, code generation, and open‑ended constrained generation show that the trained heterogeneous models match or surpass the performance of the original large model and established multi‑agent baselines, while also achieving higher inference efficiency and exhibiting task‑specific collaboration patterns.

By Yuheng Wang, Runde Yang, Zhuohan Bao, Qiran Zhang, Huatao Li, Yiyang Zheng, Lin Wu, Jingru Fan, Shu Yao, Yihan Li, Zhi Li, Chen Qian
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 1

You're Hired: Strategic Model Selection for LLM Collaboration

arXiv:2609.38816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While multi-agent and model collaboration algorithms gain traction to combine the strengths of diverse Large Language Models (LLMs), existing systems r...

By Zongwan Cao, Ziyuan Yang, Shangbin Feng, Michael Duan, Skyler Hallinan, Bingbing Wen, Lucy Lu Wang, Yulia Tsvetkov
arXiv AI
Sep 24

COMED: The Missing Middle Between Routing and Collaboration in Multi-LLM Inference

COMED (Controlled Model Escalation for Multi-LLM Deliberation) is a post-anchor controller that selectively engages cross-model collaboration in multi-LLM inference. It uses anchor self‑consistency, router margin, and a lightweight peer probe to accept confident answers, verify ambiguous cases, and only escalates when collaboration is likely beneficial. Experiments on medical, scientific, and general reasoning benchmarks show that COMED improves performance across 16 open‑weight settings, achieving up to +10.7 percentage points on MedQA and outperforming dense collaboration while invoking fewer models and decoded tokens.

By Norah Alballa, Wenxuan Zhang, Salma Kharrat, Fares Fourati, Zafar Ayyub Qazi, Mohamed Elhoseiny, Marco Canini
arXiv AI
Oct 7

DHCG: Dynamic Construction of Hierarchical Collaboration Graphs for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Reasoning

The paper introduces DHCG, a framework that dynamically constructs hierarchical collaboration graphs for large language model–based multi‑agent systems. DHCG coordinates Planner, Worker, and Generator modules to adaptively determine the composition and scale of agents during execution, guided by feedback and action‑aware preference optimization. Experiments on code generation, mathematical reasoning, and domain‑specific tasks show DHCG surpasses static and dynamic baselines, improving performance by 2.77–8.02 points and achieving a 13.06‑point gain over single‑agent baselines.

By Jie Ren, Jiakang Yuan, Chenyu Huang, Hezeer Ma, Jiayuan Fan, Tao Chen
arXiv AI
Aug 11

The Collaboration Gap: Exploration and Benchmarking of Open-World Agentic Cooperation

arXiv:2511. 02687v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The trajectory of AI development suggests that we will increasingly rely on agent-based systems powered by language models, composed of independently developed agents with different information, privileges, and tools.

By Tim R. Davidson, Adam Fourney, Saleema Amershi, Robert West, Eric Horvitz, Ece Kamar
arXiv AI
Jun 30

StarDojo: Benchmarking Open-Ended Behaviors of Agentic Multimodal LLMs in Production-Living Simulations with Stardew Valley

arXiv:2507. 07445v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous agents navigating human society must master both production activities and social interactions, yet existing benchmarks rarely evaluate these skills simultaneously.

By Weihao Tan, Changjiu Jiang, Yu Duan, Mingcong Lei, Jiageng Li, Yitian Hong, Xinrun Wang, Bo An