arXiv AI By Micha{\l} Wawer, Jaros{\l}aw A. Chudziak

Consensus is Strategically Insufficient: Reasoning-Trace Disagreement as a Knowledge-Representation Signal

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arXiv:2606. 04223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent systems are commonly designed to reduce disagreement through voting, consensus protocols, debate, or fault-tolerant aggregation.

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