Superficial Success vs. Internal Breakdown: An Empirical Study of Generalization in Adaptive Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2604.18951 · cs.MA, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-04-21 · Read on arXiv

cs.MA, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-04-21

Updated: 2026-10-19

Terminology

• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Evaluation Protocol — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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