Preprint
Aug 2026
The Collaboration Tax: How Much LLM Multi-Agent Systems Pay to Coordinate
The collaboration tax is formulated as the team-decentralisation loss of a two-player cooperative game with private information, with two propositions characterising its sign and its equivalence to a max-superadditivity violation.
Wei-Xiang Sun, Zehong Wang, Hong Huang et al.
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