Organizational Principles Enable Collective Intelligence in Embodied AI
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The paper introduces ORCH, a method that applies human organizational theory to create task‑specific hierarchical structures for large, heterogeneous embodied AI teams. Using ORCH, teams of up to 50 agents across 25 wildfire‑response missions outperformed four existing multi‑agent frameworks, achieving higher mission scores and greater execution efficiency. Both human‑designed and language‑model‑generated ORCH organizations improved performance, with hierarchical organization preserving concurrent activity while coordinating ordered transitions between mission phases.
The paper introduces ORCH, a method that applies human organization theory to create task‑specific hierarchical structures for large, heterogeneous embodied AI teams. By combining concurrent and sequential interdependence, ORCH outperforms four existing multi‑agent frameworks across 25 wildfire‑response missions, improving mission outcomes, execution efficiency, exploration, and computational resource use. Both human‑designed and language‑model‑generated ORCH organizations yield significant performance gains, with hierarchical organization enabling sustained concurrent activity and coordinated transitions in long‑horizon missions.
arXiv:2510.26915v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While heterogeneous teams have typically been designed for well-specified missions with known semantics, generative intelligence, i.e., large...
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