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AutoSwarm: Automating Agent Swarms

Zhonghang Li·Zongwei Li·Chao Huang
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Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly automate complex tasks, with multi-agent systems seeking further performance gains through specialization and collaboration. However, distributing work across agents does not automatically yield complementary contributions, and inter-agent dependencies can turn local errors into task failure. To address these challenges, we propose AutoSwarm, a multi-agent framework for collaborative problem solving. Collaboration formation jointly defines responsibility boundaries and conditions for acceptance and downstream use, grounding capability allocation in contributions that other agents can assess and integrate toward a shared objective. Execution coordination couples agents' local progress through a shared state, using dependencies and supervisory relationships to govern agent activation, result handoffs, and integration while adapting subsequent actions to review feedback and emerging blockers. Experiments spanning long-horizon programming, interactive planning, and professional financial analysis demonstrate AutoSwarm's advantages over single-agent baselines and existing multi-agent frameworks. Source code is available at https://github.com/HKUDS/AutoSwarm.

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Zhonghang Li, Zongwei Li, Chao Huang. 2026-10-17. AutoSwarm: Automating Agent Swarms. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.33048

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