arXiv AI By Yaxin Gong, Chongming Gao, Gangyi Zhang, Chenxiao Fan, Leyang Shen, Jiakai Wang, Dong Wang, Yang Liu, Haoyan Liu, Xinting Hu

Locating and Closing Information Gaps in Multi-Agent Systems

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The paper introduces SPLICE, a method that identifies and closes information gaps in multi‑agent workflows for web‑task completion. SPLICE locates missing evidence after an initial run, adds a single directed edge to deliver the evidence, re‑executes affected agents, and uses a selector trained on process features to decide whether to adopt the new answer. Experiments on five benchmarks show SPLICE improves web‑tool use scores by 8.0% and reasoning/planning scores by 5.7% with modest cost increases and zero‑shot transfer to new backbones.

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