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Semantic Cooperative Games for Contribution Attribution in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

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arXiv:2607. 18255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contribution attribution has become a central problem in LLM-based multi-agent systems, where final outputs are produced through multiple agents, message exchanges, and ordered workflow dependencies.

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