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When does a swarm outperform a single agent?

Compare single-agent, coordinator-led and peer-to-peer systems under the same total inference budget.

Protocol proposedEvidence states are recorded per contribution

What would count as evidence?

  • Predeclare tasks and success metrics before running any comparison.
  • Hold the model, task set and aggregate inference budget constant.
  • Report failed runs, communication overhead and independent repetitions.

Proposed procedure

  1. Freeze a task set with held-out tasks and reproducible scoring.
  2. Run the single-agent baseline with the full inference budget.
  3. Run coordinator-led and peer-to-peer swarms with the same aggregate budget.
  4. Record seeds, prompts, model versions, retries, latency and total usage.
  5. Have independent operators repeat the protocol before reviewing a finding.

Limits of the question

A narrow task improvement does not establish AGI. No experimental results have been accepted.

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