Feb 2026· arXiv.org· Vol abs/2604.16321· 2 citations· 164 references
Computer Science
TL;DR
A Multi-Vocal Literature Review is conducted, combining insights from both academia and industry, including peer-reviewed studies and grey literature to systematically synthesize and analyze existing knowledge on LLM-based multi-agent systems for code generation.
Abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled multi-agent systems to perform autonomous code generation for complex tasks. Despite the recent growth in research and industrial applications in this area, there is little work on synthesizing evidence from both academic and industrial sources to capture the current state of research on LLM-based multi-agent systems for code generation. To this end, we conducted a Multi-Vocal Literature Review (MLR), combining insights from both academia and industry, including peer-reviewed studies and grey literature. The aim of this study is to systematically synthesize and analyze existing knowledge on LLM-based multi-agent systems for code generation. Specifically, the review examines the motivations for their use, employed benchmarks and models, key challenges, proposed solutions, and potential directions for future research. We selected and reviewed 114 studies, and the key findings are: 1) the identified reasons for adopting multi-agent systems for code generation were classified into nine categories; 2) the models and evaluation benchmarks utilized across the studies were systematically analyzed to provide a structured overview of commonly adopted LLM configurations and assessment practices; 3) the reported challenges and corresponding solutions were synthesized into six main categories and 26 subcategories; and 4) future research directions were identified and organized into six main categories and 18 subcategories. The results of this MLR will assist researchers and practitioners in pursuing further studies and supporting the real-world adoption of multi-agent systems in industrial settings.
A comprehensive overview of the existing tools and frameworks for implementing MAS in software engineering and a set of lessons learned and challenges that can help researchers and practitioners to select a suitable MAS framework according to their needs are provided.
Maria Sâmyla Serafim de Oliveira, M. Ibiyo, Marco Gianrusso et al.· 0 citations
The analysis indicates that the promise of LLM-based agents for scalable automation, collaborative reasoning, and complex workflow execution comes with significant challenges in long-horizon reliability, evaluation standardization, communication security, cost-efficient orchestration, governance, and the interpretability of emergent multi-agent behavior.
Nada Mohamed, Prasun Chakrabarti, S. Gupta· Journal of Smart Algorithms...· 0 citations
A configurable multi-agent framework for benchmarking LLMs in Prolog code generation that combines a Code Generator Agent, a deterministic execution layer using SWI-Prolog, and an evaluator based on the LLM-as-a-Judge paradigm that supports model-agnostic experimentation and evaluates outputs across functional correctness, efficiency, structural properties and evaluator reliability.
Nikolaos Karamousalidis, P. Kefalas· SN Computer Science· 0 citations
Developments in artificial intelligence have made it possible for autonomous systems to compose, test, and refine code, but all current methods are based on single-agent designs or weak multi-agent systems with little cooperation and poor validation procedures. Single-agent designs lack internal diversity and poor reasoning, whereas small multi-agent designs are mostly competitive rather than cooperative and lack strong role specialization to facilitate complicated iterative improvement. The work presented here provides a five-agent collaborative architecture to provide continuous and verifiable code optimization by controlled specialization and iterative refinement. The architecture consists of five specialized agents, including the planner agent, the coder agent, the tester agent, the reviewer agent, and the explainer agent. Each agent plays a differentiated role in an integrated process of feedback where code is conceived, developed, tested, examined, and explained in an iterative process until optimality is reached. The improvement process continues until an internally optimal solution is obtained, and the reviewer agent then checks its validity individually and passes it on to the explainer agent for explainability and documentation, else the system goes through the improvement cycle again. This composition unifies independent thinking, responsibility, and transparency in an interdependent environment with lesser bias and more consistency of choice. The five-agent architecture realizes maximum heterogeneous viewpoints and distributed knowledge, producing better-quality, understandable, and verifiably optimal code than current single-agent or smaller multiagent approaches. Experiments show that continuous validation and specialization-based cooperation result in better results in automatically generated code and provides a scalable platform for intelligent, self-adjusting development environments with a 92
Jesalkumari Varolia· Journal of Intelligent Decis...· 0 citations
A multi-agent pipeline-based approach for solving competitive programming problems via Large Language Models (LLMs) is developed and the Writer-Reviewer pipeline where the Writer Agent produces Python solutions and the Reviewer Agent gives static natural language feedback is analyzed.
Temel Kaan Ekiz, M. Z. Konyar· ADBA Computer Science· 0 citations
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