When Debate Helps: Proposal Supply and Verification-Aware Readout in Multi-Agent Reasoning

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arXiv:2610.04686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent debate can improve reasoning, yet often fails to beat simple majority voting. We argue that successful debate requires two distinct mechanisms: proposal supply must surface a correct answer, and readout must identify that answer when voting misses it. We formalize the first requirement through recoverable headroom, which measures cases where a correct proposal is available but the majority answer is wrong. For the second, we develop Lat