将多智能体LLM系统的角色、协作与算法解耦,实现灵活配置与自适应选择。
Toward an Organizational Science of Multi-Agent LLM Systems: Decoupling Who, How, and Which Algorithm
- 将组织、协调与协作协议三者分离为独立可替换模块
- 自适应路由策略在任务中表现优于所有固定协议
- 揭示责任分配需随模型变化而动态调整,不可硬编码
基于大语言模型的多智能体系统常将角色设定、协同机制与融合算法混在一起。本文提出IMACS框架,将三者解耦为正交层:经典组织理论(如Belbin角色、Mintzberg协调、RACI责任)可直接执行并验证;六种已有协作算法通过统一接口接入,角色、协调方式与责任归属均可独立配置。控制实验显示,仅改变组织设定而固定协议时性能显著差异。进一步设计自适应组织路由(Adaptive Org Routing),以上下文带权探索方式动态选择协议,在真实基准和LLM评判奖励下在线训练,超越所有固定协议。消融分析表明:责任分配影响结果的前提是协议将成果传递至责任人,且最优配置随模型家族变化,说明组织设计必须针对具体模型重新验证或学习。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multi-agent frameworks built on large language models (LLMs) routinely entangle three logically distinct concerns: who is on the team (organization), how members align (coordination), and which algorithm fuses their work (collaboration protocol). IMACS (Intelligent Multi-Agent Collaboration System) separates the three into orthogonal, independently swappable layers. Classic organizational theory (Belbin roles, Mintzberg coordination, RACI accountability) becomes executable, validated configuration, and the framework places six published collaboration algorithms behind a common interface while exposing roles, coordination, and accountability as independently configurable factors. We use this separation to conduct controlled comparisons in which organizational assignments vary while the collaboration protocol is held fixed. It also turns protocol choice into a variable that can be learned: Adaptive Org Routing, a contextual-bandit meta-protocol, selects a protocol per task under an explicit quality-cost tradeoff, outperforms every fixed protocol in a controlled study, and trains online on real benchmark and LLM-judge rewards. The ablations expose a mechanism. Accountability placement changes outcomes exactly when the protocol routes the deliverable through the accountable agent, and the winning placement flips across model families, so organizational design cannot be hard-coded; it must be revalidated, or learned, for each model binding.
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