通过识别并强化最弱的智能体,提升多智能体协作的推理稳定性。
Weak-Link Optimization for Multi-Agent Reasoning and Collaboration

- 基于弱链原理,用元学习预测各智能体性能权重。
- 实验显示平均准确率达82.2%,显著提升系统稳定性。
- 适合关注多智能体鲁棒性与泛化能力的研究者。
LLM驱动的多智能体框架通过多角色协作解决复杂推理任务,但现有方法常因个体错误在协作中被放大而出现推理不稳。当前研究多聚焦于增强高能力智能体或抑制不可靠输出,对性能瓶颈智能体的系统性识别与强化关注不足。为此,我们提出WORC框架,基于弱链原则,采用两阶段流程:第一阶段,构建任务特征,利用蚁群等群体智能算法(SIAs)识别最优配置,训练元学习权重预测器,实现零样本映射,定位表现最差的弱智能体;第二阶段,采用不确定性驱动的资源分配策略,为弱智能体分配更多推理预算,预测权重越低,重复采样次数越多,以补偿其可靠性不足。实验表明,WORC在推理基准上平均准确率达82.2%,提升了框架稳定性和跨架构泛化能力,证明仅强化弱点即可增强多智能体系统的鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
LLM-driven multi-agent frameworks address complex reasoning tasks through multi-role collaboration. However, existing approaches often suffer from reasoning instability, where individual agent errors are amplified through collaboration, undermining overall performance. Current research mainly focuses on enhancing high-capability agents or suppressing unreliable outputs to improve framework effectiveness, while systematic identification and reinforcement of performance-limiting agents receive less attention. To address this gap, we propose WORC, a \underline{w}eak-link \underline{o}ptimization framework for multi-agent \underline{r}easoning and \underline{c}ollaboration, grounded in the weak-link principle. WORC follows a two-stage workflow. In the weak agent localization stage, task features are constructed, and a meta-learning-based weight predictor trained on optimal configurations identified by swarm intelligence algorithms (SIAs) enables zero-shot mapping from these features to agent performance weights, where the agent with the lowest predicted weight is identified as the weak agent. In the weak-link optimization stage, an uncertainty-driven allocation strategy assigns additional reasoning budgets to weak agents, with lower predicted weights leading to larger repeated-sampling quotas to compensate for reliability deficiencies. Experimental results show that WORC achieves an average accuracy of 82.2\% on reasoning benchmarks while improving framework stability and cross-architecture generalization, suggesting that compensating for weak links, rather than reinforcing strengths alone, enhances the robustness of multi-agent systems.
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