Progressive pruning lets language-model debates beat equal-cost baselines

Conditional Progressive Pruning uses intermediate debate results and learned agent behavior to allocate computation across rounds more effectively.

Top University
Ruosong Ye · Caiqi Zhang · Jiahao Li · Haijun Wu · Xiaolong Luo · Huiyuan Chen · +6 more

Rutgers University, New Brunswick · University of Cambridge · Tsinghua University · Harvard University · Case Western Reserve University

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Ye and colleagues test whether multi-agent debate offers benefits beyond independent sampling when methods receive the same computational budget.

The authors studied heterogeneous teams, in which different language models attempt the same problem and exchange reasoning over multiple rounds.

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From University of Cambridge and 6 others

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Conditional Progressive Pruning makes multi-agent debate outperform consistency methods under the same computational cost.

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