FutureWeaver: Planning Test-Time Compute for Multi-Agent Systems with Modular Collaboration
Dongwon Jung · Peng Shi · Muhao Chen · Yi Zhang
FutureWeaver optimizes test-time compute in budget-constrained multi-agent systems by automatically discovering reusable sub-workflows via self-play and selecting the best agent or workflow at each step through A*-like budget-aware planning.
摘要
Scaling test-time computation has been shown to significantly improve large language model (LLM) performance without additional training. However, extending these techniques to multi-agent systems remains challenging: existing approaches lack principled mechanisms for allocating compute to enable effective collaboration, scaling coordination itself, or optimizing compute usage under explicit budget constraints. To address this gap, we propose FutureWeaver, a framework for planning and optimizing test-time compute allocation in multi-agent systems under fixed budgets. It introduces collaboration modules, formalized as modular, callable functions that encapsulate reusable multi-agent workflows and are automatically induced via self-play reflection from recurring interaction patterns. Building on these modules, it employs a dual-level planning architecture that jointly performs short-horizon action selection and long-horizon abstract lookahead to optimize inference trajectories under budget constraints. Experiments on complex agent benchmarks demonstrate that FutureWeaver consistently outperforms baselines across diverse budget settings, validating its effectiveness for multi-agent collaboration in inference-time optimization.