Multi-Agent debate system based on large language models: structured deliberation and validation in satellite communications

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Structured contrast and deliberation among agents can enhance argumentative coherence and mitigate bias.

“Other studies have demonstrated that structured contrast and deliberation among agents can enhance argumentative coherence and mitigate bias (Chen et al., 2024;Liu et al., 2026).”

• cites Chen et al., 2024 sourcePartly supported

  The Introduction describes structured discussion among diverse LLM agents, and §6.2 reports improved reasoning accuracy and consensus. The paper also identifies model bias and illustrates an echo chamber among same-model agents in Appendix C.5. It does not establish improved argumentative coherence or directly measure bias mitigation, so those parts of the claim go beyond its findings. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  The Preliminaries describe agents reviewing and responding to one another, and the Conclusion reports improved accuracy on logical-reasoning datasets. That supports a benefit from structured deliberation, but the paper does not establish improved argumentative coherence or reduced bias specifically; accuracy and diverse viewpoints are not measures of either outcome. (LLM, conf=0.84)

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LLM-as-a-judge achieves over 80% agreement with expert human ratings.

“Zheng et al. (2023) demonstrated that strong LLMs achieve over 80% agreement with expert human ratings using MT-Bench and ChatBot Arena, positioning this method as a scalable and reliable alternative to manual annotation.”

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In Phase I, System B dominated the baseline rubric, producing encyclopedic, textbook-style responses that scored highly on completeness and fluency.

“The baseline rubric revealed a paradoxical dominance of System B, which produced encyclopedic, textbook-style responses that scored highly on completeness and fluency.”

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System B scored 8.34 in synthesis cohesion and 1.58 in executive readiness.

“This exposed a structural anomaly in System B: it scored artificially high in synthesis cohesion (8.34) due to the absence of inter-agent debate, while failing in executive readiness (1.58).”

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Phase II showed convergence between the two multi-agent systems, both achieving margins of 1.0-2.0 points.

“Phase II showed convergence between the two multi-agent systems, both achieving margins of 1.0-2.0points.”

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System C outperformed System A by a margin exceeding 10%, with the critical differentiator being executive readiness (8.0 vs. 7.0).

“System C outperformed System A by a margin exceeding 10%, with the critical differentiator being executive readiness (8.0 vs. 7.0).”

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System B peaked in accuracy (5.87) and question alignment (5.35), while both multi-agent systems remained below 4.40 in every category.

“As shown in Fig. 3, System B peaked in accuracy (5.87) and question alignment (5.35), while both multi-agent systems remained below 4.40 in every category.”

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System B collapsed under dialectic criteria, scoring 1.29 in dialectical synthesis and near zero in executive decision (0.08).

“System B collapsed under dialectic criteria, scoring 1.29 in dialectical synthesis and near zero in executive decision (0.08).”

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In Phase I, System B won decisively with margins of 1.0-2.0 points, while Systems A and C prevailed by narrower margins (<1.5 and <1.0 points, respectively).

“In Phase I, System B won decisively with margins of 1.0-2.0 points, while Systems A and C prevailed by narrower margins (<1.5 and <1.0 points, respectively).”

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A persistent statistical tie emerged between Systems A and C, with negligible divergence in constraint management (7.19 vs. 7.17) and executive decision (8.26 vs. 8.36).

“However, a persistent statistical tie emerged between Systems A and C, with negligible divergence in constraint management (7.19 vs. 7.17) and executive decision (8.26 vs. 8.36).”

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System C exhibited an interquartile margin range of 0.5-2.75 points, surpassing System A's 0.5-2.30 range.

“System C exhibited an interquartile margin range of 0.5-2.75 points, surpassing System A's 0.5-2.30range”

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Current LLM-based multi-agent systems often operate in constrained or domain-specific environments, where coordination and consensus mechanisms are still under development.

“LLM-based multi-agent systems often operate in constrained or domain-specific environments, where coordination and consensus mechanisms are still under development (Liu et al., 2025a;Zhang et al., 2025).”

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LLM-based multi-agent systems are feasible across a range of contexts.

“the aforementioned literature, alongside broader research in the field, collectively demonstrates the feasibility of LLM-based multi-agent systems across a range of contexts.”

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Current LLM-based multi-agent systems frequently rely on static communication protocols and lack dynamic retraining or adaptation procedures to handle evolving tasks and contexts.

“These systems frequently rely on static communication protocols and lack dynamic retraining or adaptation procedures to handle evolving tasks and contexts (Zhang et al., 2025;Sheokand et al., 2025).”

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Structured deliberation between LLMs significantly enhances reasoning reliability, factual accuracy, and argumentative coherence compared to single-agent outputs.

“Current research in multi-agent debate systems has established that structured deliberation between Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly enhances reasoning reliability, factual accuracy, and argumentative coherence compared to single-agent outputs (Du et al., 2024).”

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The proposed framework is generalizable and fully traceable, suitable for real-world, mission-critical environments.

“Ultimately, this work delivers a generalizable, fully traceable deliberation framework suitable for real-world, mission-critical environments.”

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Domain adaptation is achieved by redefining expert roles and updating the retrieval corpus, making the framework applicable to domains such as aerospace, biomedicine, and cybersecurity.

“Domain adaptation is achieved by redefining expert roles and updating the retrieval corpus, making the framework applicable to domains such as aerospace, biomedicine, and cybersecurity.”

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Using the same model for the single-agent baseline as for the multi-agent systems ensures that performance differences can be attributed to the deliberation structure rather than underlying model capability.

“The same model was used for the Single-agent baseline, ensuring that any performance differences between single and the multi-agent systems can be attributed to the deliberation structure itself rather than to underlying model capability.”

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Explicit termination conditions ensure computational efficiency and prevent redundant exchanges.

“Explicit termination conditions-round and token limits, or minimal consensus variationensure computational efficiency and prevent redundant exchanges.”

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Domain-specialized expert agents contribute complementary technical perspectives.

“Domain-specialized expert agents that contribute complementary technical perspectives.”

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The protocol is protocol-first: the deliberative process is defined independently of any particular model and any existing framework.

“Unlike prior work that relies on heuristic or library-based coordination, our protocol is protocol-first: the deliberative process is defined independently of any particular model and any existing framework, and serves as the primary object of study.”

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Reproducibility was assessed across three independent runs; Pearson's χ2 test of independence (α = 0.05) verified the stability of winner distributions (System A, B, C, or Tie) across replicates.

“Reproducibility was assessed across three independent runs; Pearson's χ 2 test of independence (α = 0.05) verified the stability of winner distributions (System A, B, C, or Tie) across replicates.”

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The framework is specifically designed for application in critical domains such as SatCom and is tailored to their particular constraints and requirements through the formal protocol and explicit role semantics.

“The framework is specifically designed for application in critical domains such as SatCom and is tailored to their particular constraints and requirements through the formal protocol and explicit role semantics.”

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In Phase III, System C establishes itself as the most robust architecture, with role diversity within a deliberative framework proving fundamental for resolving technical conflicts and generating actionable recommendations in critical domains such as SatCom.

“In Phase III, System C establishes itself as the most robust architecture, with role diversity within a deliberative framework proving fundamental for resolving technical conflicts and generating actionable recommendations in critical domains such as SatCom.”

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The single-agent and multi-agent systems have access to the same underlying information density through the RAG mechanism, allowing isolation of the impact of deliberation itself.

“This setup allows us to isolate the impact of deliberation itself, as both the singleagent and the multi-agent systems have access to the same underlying information density through the RAG mechanism.”

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A structured moderated debate protocol ensures controlled turn-taking and full traceability.

“A structured moderated debate protocol that ensures controlled turn-taking and full traceability.”

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The framework was implemented from scratch, avoiding libraries such as AutoGen or CrewAI, ensuring complete control over coordination, turn management, and evaluation flow.

“The framework was implemented from scratch, avoiding libraries such as AutoGen or CrewAI, ensuring complete control over coordination, turn management, and evaluation flow, while mitigating HPC deployment issues common to generic orchestration frameworks.”

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Structured debate significantly improves response quality in Phase II, with both multi-agent systems mitigating individual hallucinations.

“Structured debate significantly improves response quality in Phase II, with both multi-agent systems mitigating individual hallucinations.”

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System C not only wins more often but does so with greater magnitude.

“confirming that System C not only wins more often but does so with greater magnitude.”

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System A's homogeneous agents quickly defaulted to groupthink-manifesting as premature, polite consensus and redundant signaling-that penalized their scores.

“While System A's homogeneous agents quickly defaulted to groupthink-manifesting as premature, polite consensus and redundant signaling that penalized their scores”

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Answers were anonymized and shuffled to prevent positional bias.

“Answers were anonymized and shuffled to prevent positional bias; final scores (0-10, where 0 represents the lowest quality and 10 the highest) were computed via external Python scripts.”

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Collaboration only pays off once task complexity exceeds a certain threshold; below that threshold, deliberation adds noise rather than value.

“showing that collaboration only pays off once task complexity exceeds a certain threshold; below that threshold, deliberation adds noise rather than value.”

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Multi-agent debate improves verification only when evidence coverage is strong and can degrade it otherwise.

“where multi-agent debate improves verification only when evidence coverage is strong and can degrade it otherwise (Chang & Lai, 2026).”

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The full evaluation repeated with a second independent judge (GLM-4.5-Air) yielded a Pearson correlation of 0.975 between the two judges' win rates, and the system rankings were preserved in every phase.

“The Pearson correlation between the two judges' win rates was 0.975, and the system rankings were preserved in every phase.”

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The proposed framework is domain-agnostic and adaptable to specialized expert roles and context-specific retrieval sources.

“Its architecture is domain-agnostic and adaptable to specialized expert roles and context-specific retrieval sources.”

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Prior benchmarks reporting up to 8.4% heterogeneity gains on coding/math tasks may actually underestimate its impact in complex, deliberative decision-making scenarios, where the effect only appears once the evaluation targets executive-level synthesis rather than technical correctness alone.

“This suggests that prior benchmarks reporting up to 8.4% heterogeneity gains on coding/math tasks may actually underestimate its impact in complex, deliberative decision-making scenarios”

• AssumptionRests on an assumption: Prior benchmarks report up to 8.4% heterogeneity gains on coding/math tasks.

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System B is efficient for foundational tasks (Phase I) but lacks the depth needed for complex decision-making.

“System B is efficient for foundational tasks (Phase I) but lacks the depth needed for complex decision-making.”

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The χ2 test yielded p = 0.894 (χ2 = 2.267, df = 6), well above α = 0.05, confirming reproducibility and evaluator stability.

“Robustness was confirmed across three independent replicas: the χ 2 test yielded p = 0.894 (χ 2 = 2.267, df = 6), well above α = 0.05 , confirming reproducibility and evaluator stability.”

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In SatCom, single-model outputs fail to resolve trade-offs between latency, power efficiency, and coverage.

“In SatCom specifically, where single-model outputs fail to resolve trade-offs between latency, power efficiency, and coverage”

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The results reveal a consistent C > A > B hierarchy that is contingent on task complexity.

“The results reveal a consistent C > A > B hierarchy that is contingent on task complexity”

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The protocol enforces cross-role factual consistency and role-coherent argumentation rather than allowing unconstrained generic debate.

“Crucially, the protocol enforces cross-role factual consistency and role-coherent argumentation rather than allowing unconstrained generic debate.”

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The proposed framework is a generalizable architecture that can be adapted with minimal modification to any critical domain.

“The framework is conceived as a generalizable architecture that can be adapted with minimal modification to any critical domain.”

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Per-round truncation ensures each agent receives only the evidence relevant to its current argumentation phase, limiting context drift across the debate cycle.

“Per-round truncation ensures each agent receives only the evidence relevant to its current argumentation phase, limiting context drift across the debate cycle.”

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Judge model selection avoided training contamination and self-preference bias by excluding models with prior exposure to the multi-agent debate pipeline and models from the same family as any debate agent.

“Judge model selection followed three criteria: (1) parameter count of at least 100B, to ensure sufficient evaluation capacity; (2) no prior exposure to the multi-agent debate pipeline, to avoid training contamination; and (3) not belonging to the same model family as any debate agent, to avoid self-preference bias.”