Shared-Memory Multi-Agent Systems

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This field studies how multiple AI agents use common memory to coordinate, preserve useful experience, and divide work across long or complex tasks. Approaches include shared logs and workspaces, structured or role-routed retrieval, local-plus-global memory, and consistency mechanisms such as transactional updates and conflict-free replicated data structures. Systems are tested on question answering, web and household tasks, coding, visual reasoning, and research workflows. A central tension is that sharing can reduce duplicated work but also spread errors, stale claims, or private information; provenance, access control, verification, and efficient retrieval remain open challenges.

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  1. Ledger-State Stigmergy: A Formal Framework for Indirect Coordination Grounded in Distributed Ledger State

    Apr 5, 2026Fernando Paredes GarcíaMulti-Agent CoordinationShared-Memory Multi-Agent Systems

    Independent Researcher

  2. MediHive: A Decentralized Agent Collective for Medical Reasoning

    Mar 28, 2026Xiaoyang Wang, Christopher C. YangMulti-Agent LLM SystemsMedical QA

    College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  3. Governed Memory: A Production Architecture for Multi-Agent Workflows

    Mar 18, 2026Hamed TaheriAgent Memory GovernanceAgent Memory Management

  4. Multi-Agent Memory from a Computer Architecture Perspective: Visions and Challenges Ahead

    Mar 9, 2026Zhongming Yu, Naicheng Yu, Hejia Zhang +5Shared-Memory Multi-Agent SystemsHierarchical Memory

    University of California, San Diego San Diego, California, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia, USA

  5. IntentCUA: Learning Intent-level Representations for Skill Abstraction and Multi-Agent Planning in Computer-Use Agents

    Feb 19, 2026Seoyoung Lee, Seobin Yoon, Seongbeen Lee +4Computer-Use AgentsLong-Horizon Agent Tasks

    Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  6. DeALOG: Decentralized Multi-Agents Log-Mediated Reasoning Framework

    Feb 1, 2026Abhijit Chakraborty, Ashish Raj Shekhar, Shiven Agarwal +1Multi-Agent CollaborationMultimodal QA

    Arizona State University

  7. Cross-User Poisoning: User-Task Boundary Failures in Multi-User Collaborative Language Agents

    Nov 21, 2025Atharv Singh Patlan, Peiyao Sheng, S. Ashwin Hebbar +2Data Poisoning AttacksAgent Memory Poisoning

    Princeton University · Sentient

  8. SEDM: Selective Self-Evolving Distributed Memory for Agents

    Sep 11, 2025Yichen Liu, Anna Min, Yinzhi Wang +14LLM Agent MemoryAgent Memory Management

    Gradient · Zhejiang University · Rice University

  9. RCR-Router: Efficient Role-Aware Context Routing for Multi-Agent LLM Systems with Structured Memory

    Aug 6, 2025Jun Liu, Zhenglun Kong, Changdi Yang +12LLM Context ManagementMulti-Agent LLM Systems

    Carnegie Mellon University · Northeastern University · Harvard University +5