The Doctor Is In: How DR. WELL Heals Multi-Agent Coordination with Symbolic Memory
Opening — Why this matters now Large language models are learning to cooperate. Or at least, they’re trying. When multiple LLM-driven agents must coordinate—say, to move objects in a shared environment or plan logistics—they often stumble over timing, misunderstanding, and sheer conversational chaos. Each agent talks too much, knows too little, and acts out of sync. DR. WELL, a new neurosymbolic framework from researchers at CMU and USC, proposes a cure: let the agents think symbolically, negotiate briefly, and remember collectively. ...