3 papers
cs.SE2026
AsynCodeBench: Benchmarking Collaboration of Asynchronous Multi-Agent Systems in Software Engineering
Kaituo Zhang, Zhen Xiong, Zhimeng Jiang +8
Multi-agent coding has emerged as an increasingly active direction in software engineering, where complex development tasks are decomposed across multiple specialized agents workin…
cs.AI2026
Are Tools All We Need? Unveiling the Tool-Use Tax in LLM Agents
Kaituo Zhang, Zhen Xiong, Mingyu Zhong +4
Tool-augmented reasoning has become a popular direction for LLM-based agents, and it is widely assumed to improve reasoning and reliability. However, we demonstrate that this conse…
cs.MA2026
Symphony-Coord: Adaptive Routing for Multi-Agent LLM Systems
Zhaoyang Guan, Huixi Cao, Ming Zhong +6
Multi-agent large language model systems can tackle complex multi-step tasks by decomposing work and coordinating specialized behaviors. However, current coordination mechanisms ty…