cs.MAFeb 19, 2026

Reasoning-Native Agentic Communication for 6G

Authors: Hyowoon Seo, Joonho Seon, Jin Young Kim, Mehdi Bennis, Wan Choi, Dong In Kim

Organizations: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon 16419, South Korea · Department of Electronic Convergence Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul 01897, South Korea · Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, 90570 Oulu, Finland · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the Institute of New Media and Communications, Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul 08826, Korea

Abstract

Future 6G networks will interconnect not only devices, but autonomous machines that continuously sense, reason, and act. In such environments, communication can no longer be understood solely as delivering bits or even preserving semantic meaning. Even when two agents interpret the same information correctly, they may still behave inconsistently if their internal reasoning processes evolve differently. We refer to this emerging challenge as belief divergence. This article introduces reasoning native agentic communication, a new paradigm in which communication is explicitly designed to address belief divergence rather than merely transmitting representations. Instead of triggering transmissions based only on channel conditions or data relevance, the proposed framework activates communication according to predicted misalignment in agents internal belief states. We present a reasoning native architecture that augments the conventional communication stack with a coordination plane grounded in a shared knowledge structure and bounded belief modeling. Through enabling mechanisms and representative multi agent scenarios, we illustrate how such an approach can prevent coordination drift and maintain coherent behavior across heterogeneous systems. By reframing communication as a regulator of distributed reasoning, reasoning native agentic communication enables 6G networks to act as an active harmonizer of autonomous intelligence.

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