StreamMA: Streaming communication in multi-agent reasoning reduces latency and improves accuracy
Researchers introduce StreamMA, a multi-agent reasoning system that streams individual reasoning steps to downstream agents as they are generated, rather than waiting for a complete chain. This pipelining approach reduces end-to-end latency and also improves accuracy by shielding downstream agents from error-prone late reasoning steps. Evaluated across eight benchmarks, two frontier LLMs (Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4), and three topologies, StreamMA outperforms serial and single-agent baselines by an average of 7.3 percentage points. The paper also identifies a 'step-level scaling law' — a new scaling dimension orthogonal to agent-count scaling.
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ACTS: Agentic Chain-of-Thought Steering for efficient and controllable LLM reasoning
Researchers introduce Agentic Chain-of-Thought Steering (ACTS), a framework that formulates inference-time reasoning control as a Markov decision process, where a controller agent adaptively steers a frozen reasoner by issuing reasoning strategy directives and steering phrases at each step. The controller is initialized from synthetic steering trajectories with multi-budget augmentation and further optimized via reinforcement learning with budget-conditioned reward shaping. ACTS matches full-thinking performance with significant token savings and enables controllable accuracy-efficiency trade-offs across multiple benchmarks and reasoner models.
AdaSR: Adaptive streaming reasoning framework with Hierarchical Relative Policy Optimization
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MA²P: A Meta-Cognitive Multi-Agent Framework for Complex Persuasion
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DABStep: Data Agent Benchmark for Multi-step Reasoning
Hugging Face introduces DABStep, a benchmark designed to evaluate data agents on multi-step reasoning tasks. The benchmark targets agentic systems that must perform complex, sequential data operations rather than single-step queries. It aims to fill a gap in evaluation tooling for realistic data analysis workflows involving tool use and chained reasoning.
MemDreamer: Hierarchical graph memory and agentic retrieval for long video understanding
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