Reducing Cognitive Overhead in Tool Use via Multi-Small-Agent Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2508.08882v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in multi-agent systems highlight the potential of specialized small agents that collaborate via division of labor. Existing tool-integrated reasoning systems, however, often follow a single-agent paradigm in which one large model interleaves long-horizon reasoning with precise tool operations, leading to cognitive-load interference and unstable coordination. We present MSARL, a Multi-Small-Agent Reinforcement Learning framework