Test-Time Communication Between Agents Could Be Next Scaling Axis

A new paper by Dimitris Papail et al. finds that test-time communication is a promising new scaling axis: a team of 5 Claude agents collaborating via shared logs matches 33 independent agents, far outperforming Best-of-N sampling.

2026-09-21 ~ 2026-09-21 · 4 related posts

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