arXiv cs.CLAugust 17, 2026
Learning to Interrupt in Language-based Multi-agent Communication
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arXiv:2604.06452v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When a colleague starts explaining something you already understand, you interrupt them. This simple act, a listener taking control of the conversation, is natural in human communication but absent in current verbose LLM multi-agent systems. Current approaches address communication efficiency only from the speaker side, compressing messages before they are sent. We flip the perspective: rather than making speakers more concise, we let listeners