The paper introduces Degrees of Freedom (DoF), a continuous framework that measures how much decision-making is delegated to agents in large language model–based multi‑agent systems. By varying DoF, the authors explore a spectrum between fully centralized and fully decentralized coordination, finding that intermediate settings often outperform both extremes across several task domains. The study shows that task characteristics and retained experience influence how coordination granularity affects performance, offering empirical guidance for designing hybrid coordination regimes.
arXiv:2606. 08340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents, they must coordinate with others over long horizons in open-ended interactive tasks.
arXiv:2607. 25446v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent frameworks built on large language models (LLMs) routinely entangle three logically distinct concerns: who is on the team (organization), how members align (coordination), and which algorithm fuses their work (collaboration protocol).
arXiv:2606. 00655v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The burgeoning field of LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) promises to tackle complex tasks through collaborative intelligence, yet fundamental questions regarding their scaling behavior and intrinsic collective dynamics remain underexplored.
arXiv:2606. 31174v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Production large language-model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed not as lone problem-solvers but as managers: a main model creates specialized subagents, delegates work, and orchestrates their parallel, asynchronous returns through dynamic workflows.
arXiv:2606. 19111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Team science holds that leadership is contingent: it helps only under specific conditions, and capable, autonomous teams may need none at all.
The paper compares three decentralized coordination strategies for large language model (LLM) agents in a perimeter‑defense simulation: a central commander, an auction‑based consensus team, and independent agents. Across five network conditions, the consensus team achieved the lowest breach rate (15%) while the commander and independent agents had higher rates (32% and 29%). The study also explores how network range, LLM authority, and prompt wording affect performance, finding that a dedicated conflict‑resolution protocol yields the fewest breaches.
arXiv:2603. 03555v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) systems scale, evaluating their emergent coordination dynamics becomes increasingly critical.
arXiv:2609.27900v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-agent systems where a principal agent decomposes tasks and delegates them to subordinat...
arXiv:2605. 24202v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent LLM workflows route inference through specialized roles to lift end-task accuracy, but jointly training those roles with reinforcement learning is unstable in ways that are poorly understood.
arXiv:2607. 09330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied agent teams powered by heterogeneous large language models (LLMs) are being widely deployed in physical artificial intelligence such as smart factories, warehouses, and service robotics.
The paper introduces the Symbolic Guidance Taxonomy (SGT) to regulate the autonomy of large language model agents in distributed multi‑agent coordination. By providing symbolic guidance—ranging from open‑ended reasoning to fully prescriptive algorithmic steps—the authors find that intermediate levels of autonomy consistently outperform both unguided agents and fully prescriptive specifications. These results suggest that carefully controlling agent autonomy is a crucial design principle for effective LLM‑based coordination.
arXiv:2609.11737v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Collective intelligence depends not only on the capabilities of individual members, but also on how those members are organized. Yet artifici...