MANTA: Multi-Agent Network Topology Adaptation for Self-Evolving Multi-Agent Systems

Source

• Source name: arXiv
• Source kind: paper
• Authors / organization: Mao-xun Huang, Jerry Wang, Yi-Cheng Lai, Zhengxin Zhang, Claire Cardie, Hen-Hsen Huang
• Venue: arXiv: cs.AI
• Published: 2026-07-30
• Collected: 2026-07-31
• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28527v1
• PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28527v1
• DOI: UNKNOWN

Plain-Language Brief

The paper introduces MANTA, a framework for Multi-Agent Network Topology Adaptation that allows communication structures in large language model-based multi-agent systems to evolve during inference time. This adaptability aims to improve complex problem solving by modifying agent roles, communication links, execution order, information visibility, and validation pathways while maintaining the task interface and agent budget.

What the Document Says

• MANTA is a framework for Multi-Agent Network Topology Adaptation.
• It allows communication structures to self-evolve during inference time.
• It initiallyizes a task-conditioned topology from prior structural experience before execution.
• During deployment, it monitors collaboration traces and applies bounded structural updates when the current organization becomes insufficient.
• The updates can modify agent roles, communication links, execution order, information visibility, and validation pathways.
• It preserves the task interface and agent budget.
• The paper evaluates MANTA against single-agent and multi-agent baselines on five benchmarks.
• MANTA achieves the highest average score of 74.0, outperforming the strongest baseline by 5.8 percentage points.

Key Concepts Mentioned

• Multi-Agent Network Topology Adaptation
• MANTA
• Self-evolving multi-agent systems
• Inference time
• Task decomposition
• Agent specialization
• Information exchange
• Intermediate validation

Claims Made by the Document

• MANTA enables communication structures to self-evolve at inference time.
• MANTA outperforms the strongest baseline by 5.8 percentage points.

Evidence Used

• The paper describes MANTA's functionality and evaluation results.

Methods / Approach

• Task-conditioned topology initialization
• Bounded structural updates during deployment

Limitations Stated by the Authors

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Limitations Noted by the Agent

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Raw Abstract / Excerpt

Large language model-based multi-agent systems improve complex problem solving through task decomposition, agent specialization, information exchange, and intermediate validation. However, existing systems typically treat communication topology as a fixed design choice or an offline optimization target. We introduce MANTA, a framework for Multi-Agent Network Topology Adaptation that enables communication structures to self-evolve at inference time. Before execution, MANTA initializes a task-conditioned topology from prior structural experience. During deployment, it monitors collaboration traces and applies bounded structural updates when the current organization becomes insufficient. These updates can modify agent roles, communication links, execution order, information visibility, and validation pathways while preserving the task interface and agent budget. We evaluate MANTA against representative single-agent and multi-agent baselines on five benchmarks spanning information seeking, tool use, planning, workflow execution, and mathematical reasoning. MANTA achieves the highest average score of 74.0, outperforming the strongest baseline by 5.8 percentage points and obtaining the best result on PlanCraft. These results show that inference-time self-improvement can extend to the architecture of collaboration itself.