Stanford: self-organizing agent teams beat oracle router by 13.4 points on AIME
Justgototheeffinmoon · reddit · 2026-09-28
A Stanford-led arXiv paper shows AI agent teams that learn their own collaboration structure hit 66.7% average accuracy across five math/physics benchmarks — vs 48.8% for the strongest individual member and 59.0% for an oracle router that always picks the best member's independent answer. On AIME 2026, self-organizing teams beat the oracle router by 13.4 percentage points. Lead author Aneesh Pappu and colleagues call the mechanism "collaborative computation": agents exchange, challenge, repair, and synthesize partial reasoning into solutions no member produced independently, arguing "organization itself can become an agent capability." Accepted as a poster at COLM 2026 and EMNLP 2026 workshops.
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