Collaborative Multi-Agent Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning

Zhiyuan Hu, Yunhai Hu, Juncheng Liu et al.

January 14, 2026 Score: 8.7 Deep analyzed

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Abstract

Multi-agent systems have evolved into practical LLM-driven collaborators for many applications, gaining robustness from diversity and cross-checking. However, multi-agent RL (MARL) training is resource-intensive and unstable: co-adapting teammates induce non-stationarity, and rewards are often sparse and high-variance. Therefore, we introduce \textbf{Multi-Agent Test-Time Reinforcement Learning (MATTRL)}, a framework that injects structured textual experience into multi-agent deliberation at inference time. MATTRL forms a multi-expert team of specialists for multi-turn discussions, retrieves and integrates test-time experiences, and reaches consensus for final decision-making. We also study credit assignment for constructing a turn-level experience pool, then reinjecting it into the dialogue. Across challenging benchmarks in medicine, math, and education, MATTRL improves accuracy by an average of 3.67\% over a multi-agent baseline, and by 8.67\% over comparable single-agent baselines. Ablation studies examine different credit-assignment schemes and provide a detailed comparison of how they affect training outcomes. MATTRL offers a stable, effective and efficient path to distribution-shift-robust multi-agent reasoning without tuning.

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This multi-agent test-time learning framework directly maps to Zac's Claude-powered orchestrator architecture, especially for improving agent reliability across the ecosystem's diverse apps. The MATTRL approach could enhance the existing agent delegation strategy in task_tracker and code_quality apps, allowing agents like rails-expert and test-engineer to dynamically refine their reasoning through structured experience sharing and consensus-building during runtime tasks. Rationale:

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