Separating coordination from execution improves prompt optimization in multi-agent AI systems

Kim and colleagues report consistent gains when adding shared coordination instructions and role-specific update guidance to four existing prompt optimizers.

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Jongha Kim · Seohyun Lee · Jonathan Minho Chung · Jinsung Yoon · Hyunwoo J. Kim

Korea University · KAIST · Google Cloud AI Research

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Illustration: Separating coordination from execution improves prompt optimization in multi-agent AI systems
Kim and colleagues introduce Coordinator-Executor Prompt Optimization (CEPO), a framework that separates instructions for teamwork from instructions for each AI agent’s assigned task.

Multi-agent systems use several specialized language-model agents to solve a task together.

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