Multi-Agent Collaboration

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Multi-agent collaboration studies how groups of AI agents divide work, communicate, coordinate actions, and combine evidence or expertise to solve tasks that may exceed a single agent’s abilities. Common approaches include role-specialized teams, learned or adaptive communication graphs, debate and consensus protocols, shared memory, and multi-agent reinforcement learning for settings such as ad hoc teamwork, software engineering, reasoning, and robotics. Researchers evaluate systems on task-specific benchmarks and increasingly measure collaboration traces, handoffs, information use, and robustness to unfamiliar or unreliable teammates. A central tension is that added agents and communication can improve coverage and verification but also increase cost, propagate errors, suppress useful disagreement, or create coordination bottlenecks.

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  1. Agentic Social Affordance Framework (ASAF): Agent Identity Design as a Collaboration Interface in Multi-Agent Systems

    Apr 19, 2026Meng-Han LeeMulti-Agent CollaborationHuman-AI Interaction

    Independent Researcher, Taipei, Taiwan

  2. Signal or Noise in Multi-Agent LLM-based Stock Recommendations?

    Apr 19, 2026George Fatouros, Kostas MetaxasMulti-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Alpha Tensor Technologies

  3. Graph-of-Agents: A Graph-based Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration

    Apr 18, 2026Sukwon Yun, Jie Peng, Pingzhi Li +5LLM Agent OrchestrationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    UNC Chapel Hill · Eigent AI · MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab +1

  4. The Virtual Roundtable: Multi-Agent Personas Simulating the Dynamics of Human Brainstorming

    Apr 17, 2026Tim Dorn, Saara A. Khan, Julie MumfordMulti-Agent CollaborationMulti-Agent Systems

    Reality Labs, Meta, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA

  5. MARCH: Multi-Agent Radiology Clinical Hierarchy for CT Report Generation

    Apr 17, 2026Yi Lin, Yihao Ding, Yonghui Wu +1Radiology Report GenerationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, USA · University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia · University of Florida, Florida, USA

  6. Weak-Link Optimization for Multi-Agent Reasoning and Collaboration

    Apr 17, 2026Haoyu Bian, Chaoning Zhang, Jiaquan Zhang +4Multi-Agent CollaborationInference-Time Compute Allocation

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China · Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China · Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, Xi’an 710064, China

  7. BOOKAGENT: Orchestrating Safety-Aware Visual Narratives via Multi-Agent Cognitive Calibration

    Apr 17, 2026Bo Gao, Chang Liu, Yuyang Miao +2Multimodal GroundingMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Carnegie Mellon University · University of Science and Technology of China · Imperial College London +2

  8. MARS2^2: Scaling Multi-Agent Tree Search via Reinforcement Learning for Code Generation

    Apr 16, 2026Pengfei Li, Shijie Wang, Fangyuan Li +7RL for Code GenerationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Harbin Institute of Technology +1

  9. Listening Alone, Understanding Together: Collaborative Context Recovery for Privacy-Aware AI

    Apr 14, 2026Tanmay Srivastava, Amartya Basu, Shubham Jain +1Privacy-Preserving Speech ProcessingConversational Agents

    Stony Brook University · Microsoft Research

  10. PAINT: Partner-Agnostic Intent-Aware Cooperative Transport with Legged Robots

    Apr 14, 2026Zhihao Cao, Tianxu An, Chenhao Li +2Multi-Agent CollaborationLegged Robotics

    Robotic Systems Lab; ETH Zurich, Switzerland · Computational Robotics Lab; ETH Zurich, Switzerland · ETH AI Center; Switzerland

  11. How memory can affect collective and cooperative behaviors in an LLM-Based Social Particle Swarm

    Apr 14, 2026Taisei Hishiki, Takaya Arita, Reiji SuzukiLarge Language Model-Based Social SimulationEmergent Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems

    Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

  12. Evaluating Cooperation in LLM Social Groups through Elected Leadership

    Apr 13, 2026Ryan Faulkner, Anushka Deshpande, David Guzman Piedrahita +2AI Agent GovernanceMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Jinesis Lab, University of Toronto & Vector Institute · EuroSafeAI · ETH Zürich +2

  13. PAC-BENCH: Evaluating Multi-Agent Collaboration under Privacy Constraints

    Apr 13, 2026Minjun Park, Donghyun Kim, Hyeonjong Ju +5Multi-Agent CollaborationMulti-Agent Coordination

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University

  14. Prosociality by Coupling, Not Mere Observation: Homeostatic Sharing in an Inspectable Recurrent Artificial Life Agent

    Apr 12, 2026Aishik SanyalArtificial LifeEmergent Behavior in Multi-Agent Systems

    Independent Research Engineer

  15. Cooperation in Human and Machine Agents: Promise Theory Considerations

    Apr 12, 2026M. BurgessMulti-Agent CollaborationHuman-AI Collaboration

    ChiTek-i AS

  16. TriDeliver: Cooperative Air-Ground Instant Delivery with UAVs, Couriers, and Crowdsourced Ground Vehicles

    Apr 10, 2026Junhui Gao, Yan Pan, Qianru Wang +4Multi-Agent Collaboration

    Hong Kong JC STEM Lab of Smart City and Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China · State Key Laboratory of Complex & Critical Software Environment, and College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Xidian University, Xi’an, China +3

  17. Aligned Agents, Biased Swarm: Measuring Bias Amplification in Multi-Agent Systems

    Apr 10, 2026Keyu Li, Jin Gao, Dequan WangAlgorithmic BiasMulti-Agent Systems

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Innovation Institute

  18. Beyond the Individual: Virtualizing Multi-Disciplinary Reasoning for Clinical Intake via Collaborative Agents

    Apr 10, 2026Huangwei Chen, Wu Li, Junhao Jia +7Clinical ReasoningClinical Decision-Making

    Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Accessible Perception and Intelligent Systems, College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University · Hangzhou Pujian Medical Technology Co., Ltd, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Hangzhou Dianzi University +1

  19. More Capable, Less Cooperative? When LLMs Fail At Zero-Cost Collaboration

    Apr 9, 2026Advait Yadav, Sid Black, Oliver SourbutMulti-Agent CoordinationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    MATS · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · UK AI Security Institute +1

  20. Sima 1.0: A Collaborative Multi-Agent Framework for Documentary Video Production

    Apr 9, 2026Zhao SongMulti-Agent CollaborationMulti-Agent Orchestration

    Simons Institute, UC Berkeley

  21. Leaderless Collective Motion in Affine Formation Control over the Complex Plane

    Apr 7, 2026Jesus Bautista, Enric Morella, Lili Wang +1Multi-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Department of Computer Engineering, Automation, and Robotics, and with IMAG, University of Granada, Spain. · Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Control Theory and Intelligent Systems, School of Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China, 518055.

  22. EvolveRouter: Co-Evolving Routing and Prompt for Multi-Agent Question Answering

    Apr 6, 2026Jiatan Huang, Zheyuan Zhang, Kaiwen Shi +2LLM Agent RoutingMulti-Agent Collaboration

    University of Connecticut, USA · University of Notre Dame, USA

  23. Symbolic-Vector Attention Fusion for Collective Intelligence

    Apr 5, 2026Hongwei XuMulti-Agent CollaborationMulti-Agent Communication

  24. Single-agent vs. Multi-agents for Automated Video Analysis of On-Screen Collaborative Learning Behaviors

    Apr 4, 2026Likai Peng, Shihui FengVision-Language ModelsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong · Institute of Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong

  25. HCP-MAD:Heterogeneous Consensus-Progressive Reasoning for Efficient Multi-Agent Debate

    Apr 3, 2026Yiqing Liu, Hantao Yao, Wu Liu +2Multi-Agent DebateMulti-Agent Reasoning

    University of Science and Technology of China

  26. Improving Role Consistency in Multi-Agent Collaboration via Quantitative Role Clarity

    Apr 3, 2026Guoling Zhou, Wenpei Han, Fengqin Yang +3Behavioral Consistency of LLM AgentsLLM Agents

    School of Information Science and Technology, Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilin · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin, Guangxi

  27. XrayClaw: Cooperative-Competitive Multi-Agent Alignment for Trustworthy Chest X-ray Diagnosis

    Apr 3, 2026Shawn Young, Lijian XuChest X-Ray ClassificationMulti-Agent Reasoning

    Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China

  28. Too Polite to Disagree: Understanding Sycophancy Propagation in Multi-Agent Systems

    Apr 3, 2026Vira Kasprova, Amruta Parulekar, Abdulrahman AlRabah +5LLM SycophancyMulti-Agent Collaboration

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  29. Multi-Agent Video Recommenders: Evolution, Patterns, and Open Challenges

    Apr 2, 2026Srivaths Ranganathan, Abhishek Dharmaratnakar, Anushree Sinha +1Recommender SystemsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Google LLC, Mountain View, USA · Google LLC, San Bruno, USA

  30. CORAL: Towards Autonomous Multi-Agent Evolution for Open-Ended Discovery

    Apr 2, 2026Ao Qu, Han Zheng, Zijian Zhou +14Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    MIT · Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology · NUS +7