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When do multi-agent approaches outperform single model extended thinking?
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- Does internal task decomposition eliminate overhead from multi-agent coordination?
- At what task difficulty does multi-agent decomposition become worth the coordination cost?
- When does multi-agent scaling actually outperform static ensembles?
- Which research tasks are better suited for multi-agent versus single-agent approaches?
- Does parallel task structure determine optimal multi-agent architecture?
- Can multi-agent teams solve problems better than single models thinking longer?
- How do static team decomposition and dynamic agent selection compare in efficiency?
- Can task decomposition into microagents with voting scale to million-step problems?
- What makes composable abstractions emerge under performance pressure in agent systems?
- Why does literature review benefit most from multi-agent orchestration approaches?
- How should proportionality constraints be implemented in agentic systems?
- Can smaller LLMs perform tool use tasks through modular decomposition?
- How does multi-agent reasoning scale compared to single-model approaches?
- Can construction-time routing and runtime agent pruning be combined effectively?
- How should experiment budgets be allocated across parallel hypothesis-testing teams?
- Why does decentralization work better than central planning for open-ended research?