EARS: Explanatory Abstention for Reliable Sub-Agent Modeling in Large-scale Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2606.18668 · cs.MA, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-17 · Read on arXiv

cs.MA, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-06-17

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Abstention — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Explanatory Abstention for Reliable Sub-Agent Modeling — 2× in this paper
• Multi-Agent System — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Modularity — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes

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