Jul 2026
When Do Multi-Agent Systems Help? An Information Bottleneck Perspective
This study shows that multi-agent design is fundamentally an information-bottleneck optimization problem, and explains when bounded inter-agent communication helps or hurts, and observes that MAS consistently helps when relays are near-sufficient, especially for weaker models.
Wendi Yu, Lianhao Zhou, Xiangjue Dong et al.
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