Getting Up to Speed on Multi-Agent Systems, Part 3: Wave 1 (Can Agents Coordinate At All?)

Wave 1 is the cluster of papers from 2023 that people actually cite. When someone says “I read the multi-agent papers,” they usually mean these. In this post I’m going to walk through the canonical five, explain what each one actually builds, and show where they agree and where they quietly disagree with each other. Getting Up to Speed on MAS Part 1. The Landscape Part 2. The Vocabulary Part 3.…