New paper: communicating agent teams beat independent agents on research tasks
DimitrisPapail · x · 2026-09-22
Dimitris Papail and collaborators released a new paper arguing that test-time communication may be the next axis for scaling capabilities, asking when Team-of-N beats Best-of-N.
The setup: N identical agents work on the same task with no prescribed roles, collaborating only via a shared log (a text file). Across three research-y tasks, communicating teams substantially outperformed independent agents. The authors cite the Hugging Face incident as evidence that agents exploit any communication channel they can find, motivating a systematic study of when communication makes groups more capable than individuals.
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