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Loop-Back Authority in LLM Agent Teams: A Paired Experiment on Flat and Hierarchical Coordination
Hierarchical orchestration, in which a Manager agent reviews worker output and can send it back for revision, is the default coordination pattern in production multi-agent LLM frameworks. Classical organizational theory predicts that the authority link speeds convergence on decisive output; work on sycophancy and Degeneration-of-Thought predicts that authoritative critique makes LLM output worse. Prior comparisons vary whole frameworks on tasks with checkable answers, leaving the authority link untested on open-ended work. We present a paired experiment that holds five LLM agents, their roles,
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- arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · 2026-09-13T19:58:54.000Z
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