arXiv AI By Haofu Yang, Hongyang Yin, Ran Bi, Faguo Wu, Peng Xue, Feng Zhou, Han Zhang

Ask on Demand: Targeted Peer Communication for Parallel Agentic Systems

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The paper introduces Ask on Demand (AOD), a communication framework for parallel large language model agents that allows them to request targeted peer assistance when specific information is needed. AOD retrieves relevant evidence from peer execution histories, selects an appropriate peer, and generates a response tailored to the request, using a lightweight gate trained on paired team continuations to decide when assistance is worthwhile. Experiments on AppWorld and WebShop show that AOD improves task performance compared to independent execution and reduces inference cost relative to existing information‑sharing baselines.

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