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When Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth: Three Failure Modes of Multi-Agent LLM Reliability

· ACM AI Letters · 0 citations · 18 references

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A three-phase framework treating self-confidence assessment, peer-resistance capability, and error correlation as orthogonal axes requiring distinct training signals is proposed, and query-inherent rarity, not shared training, is identified as the dominant driver of correlated failure.

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