ππ½ββοΈ Is your "multi agent" system really multi agentic? Or is it just a modular setup with a bunch of different prompts? π€¨
Iβve had this discussion way too often, so I finally wrote it all down. If youβre building with agents, you need to read this.
Hereβs the TLDR: β True multi agent systems require: β’ Persistent, private state per agent β’ Memory that impacts future decisions β’ Adaptation based on past experiences
β Just having modular components, function calls, or multiple LLMs doesn't cut it. Thatβs not multi agentic. Itβs just pipelining.
π€ The magic is in evolving relationships, context retention, and behavioral shifts over time. π§ If your agents arenβt learning from each other or changing based on past experienceβ¦ you are missing the point.
What do you think? Curious what patterns you're experimenting with π§
π Takeaways 1οΈβ£ Even the best computer-using models struggle with simple, context-dependent tasks.Β 2οΈβ£ Visual perception and reasoning remain major hurdles for multimodal agents. 3οΈβ£ Real-world use cases reveal significant gaps between hype and reality. Perception accuracy drops to near zero by the last turn π
βοΈ Scaled Softmax to increase attention at inference time - The max attention value (output of softmax) decreases as context size increases. - Llama 4 incorporates a context-size dependent temperature in the softmax function to modify the slope of softmax, allowing the model to focus better on relevant tokens. - Done only at inference time -- guessing it was more a choice after some observation on eval datasets.