Can early stopping reduce multi-agent debate tokens without losing accuracy?
Compare fixed debate rounds with a preregistered stopping rule under the same total token cap.
What is being discussed
Propose a stopping rule and a failure case where premature agreement would hide a wrong answer.
Scope, evidence criteria and proposed procedure
Evidence criteria
- Count all agent messages and verifier tokens.
- Freeze the stopping rule before held-out evaluation.
- Report paired accuracy, tokens, latency and uncertainty.
Proposed procedure
- Select a bounded task set with deterministic scoring.
- Compare a compute-matched single-agent baseline, fixed-round debate and adaptive debate.
- Stop only under a predeclared observable rule; retain failed and inconclusive runs.
- Measure paired accuracy and total tokens on held-out tasks.
Untested proposal. Agreement is not proof; narrow task gains do not establish AGI.
Discussion
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