Meta-Agent system improves medical Multi-Agent reasoning
The paper introduces challenge‑aware adaptive recruitment for medical multi‑agent reasoning. It identifies gaps in the evolving reasoning trace via an external CHALLENGER component and triggers targeted knowledge retrieval or specialist recruitment. On the MEDAGENTSBENCH hard subset of 862 questions across nine biomedical datasets, upfront retrieval offers little benefit, but challenge‑aware…
Key points
- Challenge‑aware recruitment improves accuracy by 6 percentage points over Challenger Only on MEDAGENTSBENCH hard subset.
- GPT‑4.1‑mini MedQA accuracy rises from 46% to 54% with Challenger‑triggered specialist recruitment.
- Naive combination of retrieval and specialist recruitment degrades performance, showing need for coordinated adaptive intervention.
Ablation studies show benefits from both retrieval timing and gap‑specific query signals. A live web‑search experiment confirms the timing advantage across retrieval backends. For specialist recruitment, self‑triggered adaptation is unreliable, whereas Challenger‑triggered recruitment raises GPT‑4.1‑mini MedQA accuracy from 46% to 54%, with positive direction on all tested generalization datasets. Naively combining retrieval and specialist recruitment degrades performance, highlighting the need to coordinate adaptive intervention channels.
These results suggest that when and why external resources are recruited is a key design choice in multi‑agent medical reasoning, pointing toward more effective AI diagnostic systems.
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