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20222026
most citedWhy Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?

15 citations · 24 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CL2026

DuoDiscover: Scaling Autonomous Discovery Beyond the Evaluation Bottleneck

Shubham Agarwal, Akshat Gupta, Mike Heddes +21

Evaluation has been central to advances in AI, and it is equally critical to autonomous discovery. Yet scaling autonomous discovery to real-world engineering challenges faces a fun…

cs.AI2026

Spectral Feedback for Test-Time Alignment of Protein Diffusion Models

Shai Dickman, Mert Cemri, Landon Butler +1

Reward maximization alignment methods for discrete diffusion models have primarily focused on steering the reverse process, either by influencing token logits or by selecting favor…

cs.SE2026

Reality Is the Final Verifier: On Two Key Gaps in Agentic Software Engineering

Alexander Krentsel, Shubham Agarwal, Mert Cemri +5

Software development follows an implementation-verification loop in which developers or agents iteratively revise an implementation until an evaluator, such as a test suite, accept…

cs.SE2026

Fantastic Adaptive Taxonomies and How to Use Them

Mert Cemri, Andrei Cojocaru, Melissa Pan +9

An agent system's execution traces record how it fails, and procedures that improve such a system without changing model weights (trajectory selection, prompt and workflow optimiza…

cs.SE2026

BenchEvolver: Frontier Task Synthesis via Solution-Centric Evolution

Yangzhen Wu, Aaron J. Li, Wenjie Ma +10

The rapid progress of frontier large language models has led to widespread benchmark saturation, limiting the ability of existing datasets to differentiate model capabilities or pr…

cs.DB2026

The Time is Here for Just-in-Time Systems: Challenges and Opportunities

Shu Liu, Alexander Krentsel, Shubham Agarwal +8

Core systems like key-value stores have historically taken years to build, and are designed to be general so as to amortize cost across deployments, paying a significant performanc…

cs.AI2026

Inductive Deductive Synthesis: Enabling AI to Generate Formally Verified Systems

Shubham Agarwal, Alexander Krentsel, Shu Liu +10

AI agents increasingly excel at generating, testing, and refining code. However, they fall short on tasks requiring formal guarantees of full coverage that testing alone cannot pro…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

EvoX: Meta-Evolution for Automated Discovery

Shu Liu, Shubham Agarwal, Monishwaran Maheswaran +14

Recent work such as AlphaEvolve has shown that combining LLM-driven optimization with evolutionary search can effectively improve programs, prompts, and algorithms across domains.…

cs.NE2026★ 2 cited

AdaEvolve: Adaptive LLM Driven Zeroth-Order Optimization

Mert Cemri, Shubham Agrawal, Akshat Gupta +9

The paradigm of automated program generation is shifting from one-shot generation to inference-time search, where Large Language Models (LLMs) function as semantic mutation operato…

cs.SE2025

Let the Barbarians In: How AI Can Accelerate Systems Performance Research

Audrey Cheng, Shu Liu, Melissa Pan +18

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to transform the research process by automating the discovery of new solutions. This shift depends on the availability of reliable verifie…

cs.CL2025

Controlling Performance and Budget of a Centralized Multi-agent LLM System with Reinforcement Learning

Bowen Jin, TJ Collins, Donghan Yu +10

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit complementary strengths across domains and come with varying inference costs, motivating the design of multi-agent LLM systems where specialize…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research

Audrey Cheng, Shu Liu, Melissa Pan +14

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is starting to transform the research process as we know it by automating the discovery of new solutions. Given a task, the typical AI-driven approach…

cs.LG2025

COMPASS: Benchmarking Constrained Optimization in LLM Agents

Tian Qin, Felix Bai, Ting-Yao Hu +8

Human decision-making often involves constrained optimization. As LLM agents are deployed to assist with real-world tasks like travel planning, shopping, and scheduling, they must…

cs.AI2025

: Faster Test-Time Scaling through Speculative Drafts

Mert Cemri, Nived Rajaraman, Rishabh Tiwari +6

Scaling test-time compute has driven the recent advances in the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), typically by allocating additional computation for more thor…

cs.AI2025★ 15 cited

Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?

Mert Cemri, Melissa Z. Pan, Shuyi Yang +10

Despite enthusiasm for Multi-Agent LLM Systems (MAS), their performance gains on popular benchmarks are often minimal. This gap highlights a critical need for a principled understa…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

DigiRL: Training In-The-Wild Device-Control Agents with Autonomous Reinforcement Learning

Hao Bai, Yifei Zhou, Mert Cemri +4

Training corpuses for vision language models (VLMs) typically lack sufficient amounts of decision-centric data. This renders off-the-shelf VLMs sub-optimal for decision-making task…

cs.SI2022

Discovering Influencers in Opinion Formation over Social Graphs

Valentina Shumovskaia, Mert Kayaalp, Mert Cemri +1

The adaptive social learning paradigm helps model how networked agents are able to form opinions on a state of nature and track its drifts in a changing environment. In this framew…

cs.CL2022★ 3 cited

Unsupervised Simplification of Legal Texts

Mert Cemri, Tolga Çukur, Aykut Koç

The processing of legal texts has been developing as an emerging field in natural language processing (NLP). Legal texts contain unique jargon and complex linguistic attributes in…