MNIST Curves Suggest a Single Agent Needs 10-100x Budget to Match a Team of Agents
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-09-22
DimitrisPapail adds to the multi-agent vs single-agent scaling discussion: from the MNIST curves, one can infer an upper bound — it takes 10-100x more token budget for a single best agent to reach the team's performance level.
This provides further quantitative support for team-of-N outperforming single-agent-with-more-compute, consistent with ARC-AGI-3 ablation results.
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