arXiv AI

LLM-Powered Swarms: A New Frontier or a Conceptual Stretch?

The paper examines whether large language model (LLM)-powered systems, such as OpenAI’s Swarm (OAS) framework, embody the core principles of classical swarm intelligence—decentralization, simplicity, emergence, and scalability. By implementing and comparing LLM-based and classical versions of Boids and Ant Colony Optimization, the authors find that while LLM swarms can mimic swarm-like dynamics, they suffer from significant computational overhead, with the LLM-based Boids simulation taking about 300 times longer than its classical counterpart.

arXiv Computation and Language
5d ago

SwarmWorld: Stigmergic technological evolution in societies of language-model agents

SwarmWorld demonstrates that homogeneous language‑model agents can self‑organize into evolving technological societies without assigned roles or direct communication. In a spatial environment, agents explore, process resources, construct artifacts, and write executable controllers that are later evaluated by a deterministic simulator. The resulting societies develop broader, more resilient technological portfolios than isolated search, with agents differentiating into exploration, construction, maintenance, and coordination roles as the world matures.

By Subhadeep Pal, Fiona Y. Wang, Markus J. Buehler
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 3

AgentJet: A Flexible Swarm Training Framework for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

We present AgentJet, a distributed swarm training framework for large language model (LLM) agent reinforcement learning. Unlike centralized frameworks that tightly couple agent rollouts with model optimization, AgentJet adopts a decoupled multi-node architecture in which swarm server nodes host trainable models and run optimization on GPU clusters, whereas swarm client nodes execute arbitrary agents on arbitrary devices.

arXiv AI
Aug 3

OpenClaw and Ollama in Agentic AI: Toward Fully Autonomous and Scalable AI Agent Systems

arXiv:2607. 28629v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The rapid transition from reactive large language models (LLMs) to persistent, action-capable systems has exposed critical gaps in the architectural understanding of Agentic AI, particularly in separating inference, orchestration, and execution layers for autonomous AI agents.

By Konstantinos I. Roumeliotis, Ranjan Sapkota
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 24

Sakana Fugu Technical Report

arXiv:2606. 21228v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The capabilities of frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) continue to advance, with different providers increasingly specializing in distinct domains.

By Yujin Tang, Edoardo Cetin, Jinglue Xu, Qi Sun, Stefan Nielsen, Vincent Richard, Haruto Goda, Iaroslav Tymchenko, Nhan Nguyen, Hyunin Lee, Mari Ashiga, Shashank Kotyan, So Kuroki, Tarin Clanuwat