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  1. Know the Shape, Find the Fault: Topology-Conditioned Diagnosis of Multi-Agent LLM Failures

    Oct 7, 2026Xinwen Liu, Zhuocheng Pan, Isabella Zhu +3Agent Failure AnalysisMulti-Agent Communication

    Beihang University Beijing, China

  2. Evaluating the Transfer of Co-Evolved Communication from 2D to 3D Simulation

    Oct 7, 2026Fernando Montes-GonzalezMulti-Agent CommunicationTransfer Learning

    Instituto de Investigaciones en Inteligencia Artificial, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

  3. Entropy-Gated Belief Coordination for Decentralized Multi-Agent Search Under Intermittent Communication

    Oct 5, 2026Mohamed Abdelnaby, Kevin LeahyBelief-Space PlanningMulti-Agent Coordination

    Department of Robotics Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  4. MedPrune: Topology-Efficient Multimodal Multi-Agent Communication Evolution for Medical VQA Tasks

    Oct 5, 2026Jiuheng Wan, Runze Li, Chen Chen +5Medical VQAMulti-Agent Collaboration

    School of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Hefei University of Technology · Nanjing University · Guangdong University of Finance and Economics +2

  5. AECP: Artifact-Exclusive Communication Protocol for Multi-Agent Code Generation

    Oct 5, 2026Jiaqi Xue, Yanjun Wang, Xiangci Li +5Multi-Agent CoordinationMulti-Agent Communication

    University of Central Florida · AWS AI Labs

  6. Copies or Sources? Measuring How LLM Aggregators Count Restated Evidence in Multi-Agent Systems

    Oct 5, 2026Jianxin Gao, Runze Li, Tianyi Yu +3Belief Updating in LLMsMulti-Agent Communication

    China Agricultural University · Jilin University · Tianjin University of Finance and Economics +1

  7. Attention Tax, Handoff Tax: A Stylised Model of When Multi-Agent LLM Systems Help

    Oct 5, 2026Akshit Anchan, Nayonika SenMulti-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Reasoning

    University of Amsterdam Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Northeastern University Boston, MA, United States of America

  8. Communication Shapes Collective Inference in Self-Adapting LLM Societies: Evidence from Mafia

    Oct 4, 2026Haonan Huang, Joey XiaoImperfect-Information GamesSocial Deduction Games

    Princeton University Princeton, NJ, USA · New York University New York, NY, USA

  9. Token Communication-Assisted Collaborative Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Concepts, Framework, and Opportunities

    Oct 1, 2026Peng Yi, Ying-Chang LiangAgent Communication ProtocolsTask-Oriented Semantic Communication

    National Key Laboratory of Wireless Communications, and also with the Center for Intelligent Networking and Communications (CINC), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 611731, China · Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences and the Center for Intelligent Networking and Communications (CINC), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu 611731, China

  10. Managing Context and Communication in Distributed Agentic UAV Swarms

    Oct 1, 2026Andrea Iannoli, Ivan Zyrianoff, Angelo Trotta +2Multi-Agent LLM SystemsSwarm Robotics

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna Bologna, Italy · Technology Innovation Institute (TII) United Arab Emirates

  11. Beyond Final Accuracy: Auditing Communication in LLM Multi-Agent Systems

    Oct 1, 2026Shixuan Li, Wei Yang, Peiyu Zhang +3Multi-Agent LLM SystemsAI Agent Auditing

    Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA · Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA

  12. Worse Together: How Performance Breaks Down in Multi-User Multi-Agent Teams

    Sep 30, 2026Sahan Paliskara, Nattaput Namchittai, Andrew LampinenMulti-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Coordination

    Independent Researcher · Anthropic

  13. Safety of Latent Communication in Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 30, 2026Muhammad Huzaifa, Sina Mavali, Thorsten EisenhoferMulti-Agent LLM SystemsAI Agent Safety

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany

  14. CollabFlow: Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Collaboration

    Sep 29, 2026Xiao Huang, Mingda Zhang, Junming Zhang +5Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen · Fudan University · University of Oxford

  15. Absorbing State Phase Transitions in Multi-Agent Search

    Sep 29, 2026Wenwen Zheng, Yuzhe Yang, Helen Qu +2Phase TransitionsMulti-Agent Systems

    Flatiron Institute

  16. RAVEN: Receiver-Conditioned Action-Value Encoding for Finite-Alphabet Multi-Agent Communication

    Sep 29, 2026Shuwei Sun, Chenxi Wang, Jian Huang +2Rate-Distortion OptimizationMulti-Agent Communication

    Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an, China

  17. LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems over Wireless Networks: A Joint Agent--Network Design Perspective

    Sep 29, 2026Chao Hu, Yuan Guo, Guanlin Wu +3Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Systems

    College of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE), Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China · School of Science and Engineering (SSE), the Shenzhen Future Network of Intelligence Institute (FNii), and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Future Networks of Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), Shenzhen 518172, China · School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

  18. LatCom: Cross-Agent Latent Compression for Efficient Multi-Agent Collaboration

    Sep 29, 2026Shinan Zhang, Tao Zhang, Qihui Zhu +7Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    University of Science and Technology of China · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center

  19. When Upstream Messages Override Correct Answers: A Controlled Study of Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration

    Sep 29, 2026Yaxin Gong, Gangyi Zhang, Chongming Gao +7Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    University of Science and Technology of China · Qwen Business Unit of Alibaba · National University of Singapore

  20. Towards Communication-Efficient Social Intelligence in Language Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Linxiao Gong, Yijie Xu, Tianfu Wang +7LLM AgentsLLM Agent Training

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · University of Science and Technology of China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  21. Self-Adapting Group of Experts for Multi-Agent Reasoning

    Sep 28, 2026Mohammad Atif Quamar, Nurbek Tastan, Karthik Nandakumar +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Reasoning

    Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · Michigan State University · RIKEN AIP

  22. Embodied Semantic Communication for Collective Autonomous Agents: A Tutorial on Representation, Wireless Delivery, and Closed-Loop Coordination

    Sep 28, 2026Yizheng Huang, Wensheng Lin, Lixin Li +3Multi-Agent CoordinationSemantic Communication

    School of Electronics and Information, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, Shaanxi 710129, China · School of Information and Communications Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · School of Telecommunications Engineering, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China +1

  23. Attention-based Hierarchical Variational Information Bottleneck for Robust Multi-Agent Communication under Variable Bandwidth

    Sep 28, 2026Lukas Koch Vindbjerg, Qi Zhang, Yury Brodskiy +1Information BottleneckMulti-Agent Communication

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark · EIVA a/s, Denmark · DIGIT, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

  24. Social Circuits behind Multi-agent Echo Chambers

    Sep 28, 2026Chuiyang Meng, Wenlu Yu, Ming Tang +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Systems

    Simon Fraser University · University of Alberta · Southern University of Science and Technology

  25. Emergence, Not Bandwidth: Physical Coupling and the Limits of Learned Multi-Agent Communication

    Sep 28, 2026Mihir Chauhan, Aniket BeraSequential MARLPartially Observable Markov Decision Processes

    IDEAS Lab, Department of Computer Science Purdue University

  26. Waggle: Learning One Anonymous Local Law for Self-Organizing LLM Swarms

    Sep 28, 2026Mingxi Zou, Wei Zhu, Zhuo Wang +4Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Coordination

    Shanghai Academy of AI for Science (SAIS) · AI3 Institute, Fudan University · Yunnan University

  27. Prospective Interpretation Risk: Principled Communication Control Between LLMs

    Sep 27, 2026Wanrong Yang, Rehan Deen, Julian Ma +7Multi-Agent LLM SystemsPragmatic Reasoning in Language Models

    University of Liverpool · Independent Researcher · University College London +1

  28. Despite Instructions: Frontier Agents Improvise Covert Channels at Test Time

    Sep 26, 2026Jacob Dineen, Silei Ren, Muhao Chen +2AI Agent SecurityPrivacy Leakage in Language Models

    Arizona State University · Cornell University · University of California, Davis +1

  29. DocuTeam: Mixed-Initiative Multi-Agent Discussions around Evolving Documents

    Sep 24, 2026Heechan Lee, Juhyeon Choi, Tae Soo Kim +2Multi-Agent CollaborationHuman-AI Interaction

    School of Computing, KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea · College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea · SkillBench, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

  30. AC-DC: Adaptive Communication for Scalable Dynamic Average Consensus in Multi-Robot Ergodic Search

    Sep 21, 2026Robin Inho Kee, Begum Cannataro, Vasileios TzoumasMulti-Robot CoordinationMulti-Agent Consensus

    Department of Robotics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA · Draper Scholar with the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA · Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA +1

  31. HEROIC: Heterogeneous Evidential Reasoning for Open-Vocabulary Identification and Cross-Robot Collaboration

    Sep 17, 2026Mihir Chauhan, Aarav Jain, Addison Zucek +3Multi-Robot ExplorationMulti-Robot Coordination

    IDEAS Lab, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA · DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA

  32. Flag Game: A Toy Model for Mechanistic Swarm Interpretability

    Sep 16, 2026Elizabeth Pavlova, Hidenori TanakaOpinion DynamicsMechanistic Interpretability

    CBS-NTT Program in Physics of Intelligence, Harvard University, MA, USA · Physics of Artificial Intelligence Laboratories, NTT Research, Inc., CA, USA · Cambridge Boston Alignment Initiative, MA, USA

  33. CC-OPI: Online Distributed Task Allocation for UAV Swarms under Communication Constraints

    Sep 16, 2026Biao Liu, Tong ZhangSwarm RoboticsMulti-Robot Task Allocation

  34. Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness

    Sep 15, 2026Tapan Chugh, Vidushi Singh, Krish Jain +2AI Agent ReliabilityMulti-Agent System Security

    University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA

  35. Waggle Dance Inspired Motion Communication for Multiple UAVs in MuJoCo

    Sep 15, 2026Zhang NengboUAV NavigationMulti-Agent Communication

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

  36. Cheap Talk Stabilizes Strategic Interaction in LLM Agents

    Sep 14, 2026Nunzio Lorè, Hongan Zhu, Babak HeydariRepeated GamesLLM Agents

    Multi-Agent Intelligent Complex Systems (MAGICS) Lab, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

  37. Robust and Efficient Communication for Multi-Agent Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Rafael Pina, Varuna De Silva, Corentin ArtaudSequential MARLMulti-Agent Communication

    Institute for Digital Technologies · Loughborough University London, United Kingdom

  38. BusMA: A Bus Communication Substrate for Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 14, 2026Yanwen Peng, Delvin Ce Zhang, Xi Wang +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Coordination

    Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  39. Communication-Constrained Multi-Robot Exploration With Adaptive Communication Windows

    Sep 14, 2026Ben Rossano, Jaein Lim, Jonathan P. HowMulti-Robot ExplorationMulti-Agent Communication

    Aerospace Controls Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA · Draper Scholar with the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA · Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA

  40. Portable Semantics, Private Dialects: Reuse and Negative Transfer in Latent Communication Between Language-Model Cells

    Sep 12, 2026Narcis MarincatMulti-Agent CommunicationNegative Transfer

    Independent researcher.

  41. MARBO: Relational Belief Grounding for LLM Agents in Social Deduction Games

    Sep 6, 2026Yechan Hwang, Sangjun Bae, Jeongmo Kim +2Game-Playing AgentsSocial Deduction Games

    Graduate School of Artificial Intelligence, UNIST, Ulsan, South Korea.

  42. The Natural Language Interaction Protocol and Standard for AI Agents

    Sep 3, 2026Luyi Xing, Rasit Onur Topaloglu, Ranjan Sinha +9Agent Communication ProtocolsMulti-Agent Communication

    University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign · Marist University · IBM +6

  43. The Civilization Framework: Sovereign-Anchored Communication Between Personal Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 3, 2026Guangjun LiuAgent Communication ProtocolsAI Agent Governance

    New York University

  44. ArcticSwarm: Deferring Early Consensus in Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Research

    Sep 1, 2026Soyoung Yoon, Boyi Liu, Yite Wang +6Deep Research AgentsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Seoul National University · Snowflake AI Research

  45. Agents That Model Agents: Five Principles Toward a Theory of Mind for 6G Networks

    Sep 1, 2026Hatim Chergui, Carolina Fernández-Martínez, Mehdi Bennis +16G NetworksTheory of Mind

    i2CAT Foundation, Spain · University of Oulu, Finland · Research Institute for Digital Future, Khalifa University, 127788 Abu Dhabi, UAE

  46. Control-Data Flow Separation: Stable Prompt Optimization in Multi-Agent LLMs

    Sep 1, 2026Wentao Zhang, Syed Shariyar Murtaza, Junaid Ahmad Bhatti +4LLM Agent OrchestrationLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

    University of Waterloo · Manulife

  47. Physics of Agents: Statistical Mechanics Predicts Collective Behavior of AI Agents

    Aug 17, 2026Batu El, Jinhee Paeng, Fatih Dinc +7Multi-Agent LLM SystemsOpinion Dynamics

    Stanford University · UC Santa Barbara

  48. Heterogeneity-Aware Belief Synchronization for Semantic Communication in AI-Native 6G Networks

    Aug 13, 2026Muhammad Hannan Akram, Muhammad Abubakar Rashid, Wassi Haider Kabir +36G NetworksSemantic Communication

    School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad 44000, Pakistan · Department of Electronic Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin 17104, South Korea · CONNECT Centre and the Department of Computer Science, Munster Technological University, Ireland

  49. StateBridge: Training-free Hidden-state Alignment for Latent Communication in LLM Multi-Agent Systems

    Aug 13, 2026Yanwen Peng, Delvin Ce Zhang, Xi Wang +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Communication

    School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield Sheffield, United Kingdom

  50. Discovering Efficient and Explainable Communication Topologies for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems via Causal Inference

    Aug 13, 2026Junzhi Li, Peng He, Qirui Ji +3Multi-Agent LLM SystemsCausal Attribution

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · National Key Laboratory of Space Integrated Information System, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  51. Scalable Multi-Agent Maze Traversal with Local Communication

    Aug 12, 2026Julian Rau, Jahir Argote-Gerald, Grace McFassel +3Multi-Agent CoordinationMulti-Robot Exploration

    Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany · School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Sheffield, UK · Bristol Robotics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

  52. XBridge: Entity-Grounded Latent Bridge for Heterogeneous LLM Communication

    Aug 12, 2026Wooseong Yang, Wei-Chieh Huang, Weizhi Zhang +3LLM GroundingTransfer Learning

    University of Illinois Chicago · Capital One AI Foundations · Hankuk University of Foreign Studies +1

  53. When Do Institutions Beat Intelligence?

    Aug 11, 2026Zhengye HanMulti-Agent SystemsMulti-Agent Reasoning

    New York University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Brooklyn, New York, United States

  54. Conversational Orchestration for Organic 6G

    Aug 11, 2026Masoud Shokrnezhad, Tarik TalebMulti-Agent Orchestration6G Networks

    ICTFICIAL Oy, Espoo, Finland · Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

  55. Interaction Creates Dynamical AI Behavior Absent in Isolation

    Aug 7, 2026Bella Xinrui Li, Frank Yingjie Huo, Neil F JohnsonDynamical SystemsMulti-Agent Systems

    1Physics Department, George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052, USA

  56. When Coordination Becomes a Threat: Communication Attacks in LLM-Controlled Multi-Robot Systems

    Aug 7, 2026Zhen Huang, Zhihuang Liu, Weijia Shi +3Multi-Robot SystemsLarge Language Model-Based Robot Planning

    College of Computer Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China

  57. Computationally Efficient Collaborative Communication Via Regularity-Based Coarsening

    Aug 5, 2026Mark Bedaywi, Scott Emmons, Nika Haghtalab +1Agent Communication ProtocolsMulti-Agent Systems

    University of California, Berkeley

  58. When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs

    Aug 5, 2026Jiaming Cheng, Subhransu Das, Rajiv RamnathKV CachingLLM Agent Evaluation

    Independent Researcher · The Ohio State University

  59. HELENA:Hierarchical Sparse Coordination over a Union of Complementary Topologies for MAS

    Aug 5, 2026Zhifang Mao, Linyao Zheng, Xuhang Shi +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent Coordination

    1XiaoLab · 2Xi’an Jiaotong University · 3Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  60. When Truth Is Distributed: Misinformation Derails Collective Fact Recovery in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

    Aug 4, 2026Chenfei Yan, Zeyang Yue, Feifei Zhao +6AI Agent EvaluationMulti-Agent Systems

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing Institute of AI Safety and Governance · School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University +3