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Multi-Agent Collaboration via Cross-Team Orchestration

Zhuoyun Du, Chen Qian, Wei Liu, Zihao Xie, YiFei Wang, Rennai Qiu, Yufan Dang, Weize Chen

Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly impacted various domains, especially through organized LLM-driven autonomous agents. A representative scenario is in software development, where agents can collaborate in a team like humans, following predefined phases to complete sub-tasks sequentially. However, for an agent team, each phase yields only one possible outcome. This results in the completion of only one development chain, thereby losing the opportunity to explore multiple potential decision paths within the solution space. Consequently leading to suboptimal results or extensive trial and error. To address this, we introduce Cross-Team Orchestration (Croto), a scalable multi-team framework that enables orchestrated teams to jointly propose various task-oriented solutions and interact with their insights in a self-independence while cross-team collaboration environment for superior solutions generation. Experiments reveal a notable increase in software quality compared to state-of-the-art baselines. We further tested our framework on story generation tasks, which demonstrated a promising generalization ability of our framework in other domains. The code and data is available at https://github.com/OpenBMB/ChatDev/tree/macnet

BibTeX
@inproceedings{du-etal-2025-multi,
    title = "Multi-Agent Collaboration via Cross-Team Orchestration",
    author = "Du, Zhuoyun  and
      Qian, Chen  and
      Liu, Wei  and
      Xie, Zihao  and
      Wang, YiFei  and
      Qiu, Rennai  and
      Dang, Yufan  and
      Chen, Weize  and
      Yang, Cheng  and
      Tian, Ye  and
      Xiong, Xuantang  and
      Han, Lei",
    editor = "Che, Wanxiang  and
      Nabende, Joyce  and
      Shutova, Ekaterina  and
      Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025",
    month = jul,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Vienna, Austria",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.findings-acl.541/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.findings-acl.541",
    pages = "10386--10406",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-256-5"
}