System that builds agent teams per query outperforms all baselines

SHIFT uses a local LLM to predict harness utility without executing candidate designs, selecting agents, instructions, and tools for each task.

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Som Sagar · Shasha Li · Hejie Cui · Ransalu Senanayake · Sercan Ö. Arık

Arizona State University

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The authors introduce SHIFT, a framework that constructs a multi-agent harness—the combination of agent roles, instructions, and tools—for each query without executing candidate designs during search.

The authors formulate per-query harness construction as a tree search over actions that define agents, instructions, and tools.

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A learned architect predicts harness utility, enabling per-query multi-agent system construction without executing candidates during search.

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