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Multi-Agent Screening: What Agreement and Acceptance Cannot Tell You
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 1 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- Research shows that when multiple AI agents screen items for human review, agent agreement alone cannot confirm correctness, and acceptance only bounds recall from below.
- Why it matters
- Engineers building multi-agent systems for search, e-discovery, or content review need to understand what metrics actually measure error rates.
- Watch out
- Recall can only be pinned down by sampling items agents rejected, not by analyzing what they passed or how much they agree.
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The patterns behind this
- MMAU: Massive Multitask Agent Understanding
- Blast-Radius Containment & Autonomy Bounds
- Error Handling and Recovery Patterns
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