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Agents2026-08-18 · source-backed
Give a model only a paper's pre-publication bibliography and ask it to propose the paper's actual research idea (arXiv 2608.16645). Across six domains and 643 papers, seven frontier models hit ~3-15% Match. A reference-only multi-agent pipeline combining cross-model review with a Swiss tournament over aligned hypothesis slots, no web search, gets ~23-42%. A ~2.4x lift from orchestration alone. Read alongside the 1,902-run coordination study, the picture is that structured multi-agent procedures help and generic orchestrator agents don't.
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