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Latent Agents Distills Multi-Agent Debate Into Single LLM, Cuts Tokens 93%
June 4, 2026
A two-stage fine-tuning pipeline — debate structure learning followed by internalization via dynamic reward scheduling and length clipping — distills multi-agent debate into a single LLM that matches or exceeds explicit multi-agent debate performance using up to 93% fewer tokens. Activation steering reveals agent-specific interpretable subspaces in the internalized model.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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builderYou can replace expensive multi-model debate pipelines with a single fine-tuned model at 93% token reduction, directly cutting inference cost for reasoning-heavy applications.
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researcherThe mechanistic finding of agent-specific activation subspaces after internalization opens a concrete direction for studying how multi-agent dynamics are encoded in single-model weights.