Apple Workshop on Reasoning and Planning 2025: On Evaluating and Improving Robustness in Visual Reasoning Abilities of Vision-Language Models

Multi-agent LLM systems are increasingly deployed as autonomous collaborators, where agents interact freely rather than execute fixed, pre-specified workflows. In such settings, effective coordination cannot be fully designed in advance and must instead emerge through interaction. However, most prior work enforces coordination through fixed roles, workflows, or aggregation rules, leaving open the question of how well self-organizing teams perform…