Multi-Agent System Optimization

Overview

Multi-agent system optimization studies how to organize, train, and coordinate multiple agents so they solve tasks more effectively than they would alone. Common approaches optimize workflows and communication topologies, route tasks to suitable agents, refine prompts, or use reinforcement learning, evolutionary search, and game-theoretic methods to improve behavior and coordination. Work spans language-model agent teams, multi-agent reinforcement learning, robotics, scheduling, and distributed resource allocation, with evaluation on reasoning and coding benchmarks as well as simulations and deployed systems. A central challenge is balancing accuracy and robust coordination against token, compute, communication, and latency costs, while ensuring gains generalize beyond particular models, tasks, and evaluation setups.

Latest papers

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162 papers16 papers in the last four weeks, up 45% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. MASPOB: Bandit-Based Prompt Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems with Graph Neural Networks

    Mar 3, 2026Zhi Hong, Qian Zhang, Jiahang Sun +5Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent System Optimization

  2. HieraMAS: Optimizing Intra-Node LLM Mixtures and Inter-Node Topology for Multi-Agent Systems

    Feb 23, 2026Tianjun Yao, Zhaoyi Li, Zhiqiang ShenCommunication Topology OptimizationMulti-Agent LLM Systems

  3. AgentConductor: Topology Evolution for Multi-Agent Competition-Level Code Generation

    Feb 19, 2026Siyu Wang, Ruotian Lu, Zhihao Yang +7LLM Agent Workflow OptimizationMulti-Agent Coding

  4. Dr. MAS: Stable Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    Feb 9, 2026Lang Feng, Longtao Zheng, Shuo He +2Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent System Optimization

  5. RuleSmith: Multi-Agent LLMs for Automated Game Balancing

    Feb 5, 2026Ziyao Zeng, Hao Wang, Chen Liu +11Multi-Agent System Optimization

  6. MASCOT: Multi-Agent Socio-Collaborative Companion Systems

    Jan 20, 2026Yiyang Wang, Yiqiao Jin, Alex Cabral +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsMulti-Agent System Optimization

  7. Rethinking Query Optimization for Multi-Agent Systems [Vision]

    Dec 10, 2025Zoi Kaoudi, Ioana GiurgiuMulti-Agent System OptimizationMulti-Agent Orchestration

  8. Optimal-Agent-Selection: State-Aware Routing Framework for Efficient Multi-Agent Collaboration

    Nov 4, 2025Jingbo Wang, Sendong Zhao, Haochun Wang +2Multi-Agent System OptimizationMulti-Agent Collaboration

  9. Distributionally Robust Markov Games with Average Reward

    Aug 5, 2025Zachary Roch, Yue WangNash Equilibrium ComputationMulti-Agent System Optimization