DIANOIA: Diagnostic Decomposition and Joint Optimization for Multi-Agent Reasoning
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arXiv:2602.08586v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems consistently outperform single-agent baselines, yet practitioners still cannot predict which design works for a new task or diagnose why one fails. We argue this gap persists largely because the field lacks a diagnostic framework with measurable primitives and testable predictions. We introduce \textbf{DIANOIA}, a three-channel decomposition of multi-agent reasoning gain into coverage, fidelity, and synthesis, each of which is empirically measurable. From this decomposition, we derive a diagnostic protocol that identif
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2602.08586v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems consistently outperform single-agent baselines, yet practitioners still cannot predict which design works for a new task or diagnose why one fails.
- We argue this gap persists largely because the field lacks a diagnostic framework with measurable primitives and testable predictions.
- We introduce \textbf{DIANOIA}, a three-channel decomposition of multi-agent reasoning gain into coverage, fidelity, and synthesis, each of which is empirically measurable.
Why it matters
This model development creates a new option for users and a new testing obligation for developers. A fixed evaluation set comparing quality, cost and failure behavior is more useful than launch claims.

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