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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs

As of 7 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 44 of 44 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.04893.

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Observation 659a0e44-ab35-475f-8658-5f752f96dfe1 · outbound

This paper cites Phi-4 Technical Report.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Phi-4 Technical Report

Reference 1

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Observation 1c2f4e68-df0a-46b1-89ad-d19e71edee58 · outbound

This paper cites When Latent Agents Lie: KV-Cache Integrity in Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs When Latent Agents Lie: KV-Cache Integrity in Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration

Reference 4

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This paper cites Make Each Token Count: Towards Improving Long-Context Performance with KV Cache Eviction.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Make Each Token Count: Towards Improving Long-Context Performance with KV Cache Eviction

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This paper cites Transferring linear features across language models with model stitching.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Transferring linear features across language models with model stitching

Reference 6

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This paper cites See What I See, Know What I Think: Dense Latent Communication Across Heterogeneous Agents.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs See What I See, Know What I Think: Dense Latent Communication Across Heterogeneous Agents

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This paper cites Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge

Reference 9

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This paper cites Enabling agents to communicate entirely in latent space.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Enabling agents to communicate entirely in latent space

Reference 12

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space

Reference 15

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Observation 9ef24712-81d9-4d65-9753-acde28a58543 · outbound

This paper cites When Less Latent Leads to Better Relay: Information-Preserving Compression for Latent Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs When Less Latent Leads to Better Relay: Information-Preserving Compression for Latent Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration

Reference 20

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Observation 6242869f-465b-4b29-97a8-0b0f6b605d6a · outbound

This paper cites The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems

Reference 21

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This paper cites Beyond tokens: a unified framework for latent communication in LLM-based multi-agent systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Beyond tokens: a unified framework for latent communication in LLM-based multi-agent systems

Reference 22

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This paper cites Locating and editing factual associations in GPT.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Locating and editing factual associations in GPT

Reference 23

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Observation 7cc6f3ba-abcc-4f1d-9ecc-e5c8e3d3bd04 · outbound

This paper cites Igor Mordatch and Pieter Abbeel.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Igor Mordatch and Pieter Abbeel

Reference 25

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Observation 56e51981-62cd-49f4-be5f-39d11b5e0b8d · outbound

This paper cites HyLaT: Efficient Multi-Agent Communication via Hybrid Latent-Text Protocol.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs HyLaT: Efficient Multi-Agent Communication via Hybrid Latent-Text Protocol

Reference 26

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Observation e66b1440-36d3-45b0-86c0-a3b5fa008b7d · outbound

This paper cites RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs with Preference Data.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs with Preference Data

Reference 28

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This paper cites Activation space interventions can be transferred between large language models.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Activation space interventions can be transferred between large language models

Reference 29

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This paper cites Representational Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Committees: Measurement and Diversity-Aware Consensus.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Representational Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Committees: Measurement and Diversity-Aware Consensus

Reference 30

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Communicating activations between language model agents

Reference 31

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This paper cites Xiangyu Shi, Marco Chiesa, Gerald Q.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Xiangyu Shi, Marco Chiesa, Gerald Q

Reference 32

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Observation 02e450ba-7379-4379-9fa7-c342b3e9da36 · outbound

This paper cites Learning multiagent communication with backpropagation.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Learning multiagent communication with backpropagation

Reference 33

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Observation 73c60fd5-827f-4a72-a454-5721e295e67d · outbound

This paper cites Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Unveiling Latent Attack in Latent-based Multi-Agent Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Unveiling Latent Attack in Latent-based Multi-Agent Systems

Reference 34

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This paper cites Interpretability in the wild: a circuit for indirect object identification in GPT-2 small.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Interpretability in the wild: a circuit for indirect object identification in GPT-2 small

Reference 35

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This paper cites Learning to Communicate: Toward End-to-End Optimization of Multi-Agent Language Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Learning to Communicate: Toward End-to-End Optimization of Multi-Agent Language Systems

Reference 36

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This paper cites Towards best practices of activation patching in language models: Metrics and methods.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Towards best practices of activation patching in language models: Metrics and methods

Reference 37

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Observation 93a97500-b92a-42e8-9bcf-3b197c95dd49 · outbound

This paper cites Do Latent Channels Actually Communicate? A Causal Audit of Latent Multi-Agent LLM.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Do Latent Channels Actually Communicate? A Causal Audit of Latent Multi-Agent LLM

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This paper cites A Negative Result on Cross-Model Activation Transfer in a Pythia Multi-Hop Setting.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs A Negative Result on Cross-Model Activation Transfer in a Pythia Multi-Hop Setting

Reference 39

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This paper cites Thought communication in multiagent collaboration.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Thought communication in multiagent collaboration

Reference 40

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Latent collaboration in multi-agent systems

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs sign-mixed

Reference 42

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This paper cites See Liu (2026); Chen et al.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs See Liu (2026); Chen et al

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs recorded in advance

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs QKVShare: Quantized KV-Cache Handoff for Multi-Agent On-Device LLMs

Reference 1979

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Ascend Cluster

Reference 1987

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This paper cites LatentMem: Customizing latent memory for multi-agent systems.ArXiv preprint, abs/2602.03036, 2026a.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs LatentMem: Customizing latent memory for multi-agent systems.ArXiv preprint, abs/2602.03036, 2026a

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This paper cites Angeliki Lazaridou, Alexander Peysakhovich, and Marco Baroni.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Angeliki Lazaridou, Alexander Peysakhovich, and Marco Baroni

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This paper cites Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

Reference 2018

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This paper cites Agent Primitives: Reusable Latent Building Blocks for Multi-Agent Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Agent Primitives: Reusable Latent Building Blocks for Multi-Agent Systems

Reference 2020

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Tenenbaum, and Igor Mordatch

Reference 2021

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

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This paper cites What Disease does this Patient Have? A Large-scale Open Domain Question Answering Dataset from Medical Exams.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs What Disease does this Patient Have? A Large-scale Open Domain Question Answering Dataset from Medical Exams

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs ReST-KV: Robust KV Cache Eviction with Layer-wise Output Reconstruction and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites LCGuard: Latent Communication Guard for Safe KV Sharing in Multi-Agent Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs LCGuard: Latent Communication Guard for Safe KV Sharing in Multi-Agent Systems

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