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Pekka Abrahamsson, Muhammad Waseem, Esa Karjalainen, Petrus Jussila, Henri Hansen, Jussi Rasku, Bilhanan Silverajan, Kai-Kristian Kemell
The authors test whether agents can exchange information through a shared scratch store without being told it is shared. In arithmetic tasks, agents wrote and read one another’s intermediate values; a private-store comparison eliminated joint success for gpt-6-astra. The result shows shared state can enable coordination in this setup, not that agents intended to communicate or that it generalizes.
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