When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs

arXiv:2608.04893 · cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-05 · Read on arXiv

cs.CR, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-08-05

Updated: 2026-08-27

Code: https://github.com/meta-llama/llama-models

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Accuracy — 29× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Calibration — 18× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Ablation — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Interpretability — 7× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
Multi-Agent System — 7× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
KV cache — 5× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Latent Reasoning — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Redundancy — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Distribution Shift — 4× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
Harness — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Information Asymmetry — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Activation Patching — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Fidelity — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generator — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Memorization — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Papers — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Self-Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Transformer — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Equivalence Testing — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Homogeneity — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Latent Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Planner — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Transformers — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Cross-Model Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Edge AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Fixed Point — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
Information Leakage — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Multi-Agent Architecture — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Scaffolding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Training Objective — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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