Does Multi-Agent Collaboration Reduce Hallucination in Clinical Tasks?
The authors evaluated four multi‑agent LLM systems against a single‑LLM baseline across four models and three clinical tasks, measuring hallucination within the rationale each system generates.
Key points
- Collaboration improves task performance but not reliably lower hallucination
- 36 comparisons, 12 resolved: 4 decreases, 8 increases
- Llama‑3.2‑3B‑Instruct amplifies hallucination; other models reduce it
They found that collaboration improves task performance but does not reliably lower hallucination. Of the 36 model‑system‑task comparisons, 12 were large enough to resolve, with four decreases and eight increases; no topology or number of agents consistently outperformed others. The effect depends on the model rather than the topology.
A self‑correction experiment showed that every model except Llama‑3.2‑3B‑Instruct reduced hallucination, while Llama‑3.2‑3B‑Instruct amplified it. Collaboration merely redistributes existing capabilities, not adding new ones.
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