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New protocol measures 'trajectory value' of AI messages beyond answer correctness

Researchers have developed a new protocol called Diverse Hypothesis Deliberation (DHD) to evaluate the value of messages in multi-agent reasoning systems, even when those messages contain incorrect answers. The DHD protocol measures a message's "trajectory value" by assessing whether its inclusion helps or harms subsequent reasoning, independent of its final answer's correctness. Experiments using GPT-OSS 120B and Gemma 4-31B-it models across various benchmarks revealed that "wrong but useful" messages are common and can significantly influence downstream reasoning positively. The findings suggest that focusing solely on answer correctness is insufficient, and DHD offers a method to identify valuable reasoning trajectories. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more robust multi-agent AI systems by enabling them to better leverage useful reasoning, even from incorrect intermediate steps.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chih-Hsuan Yang, Anjir Ahmed Chowdhury, Cheng-Hau Yang, Weijian Zheng, Fernando Llorente, Xiaolong Ma, Xinyang Li, Eliu A. Huerta, Ian T. Foster, Rajeev Thakur ·

    Wrong but Useful: Trajectory Value Beyond Answer Correctness in Multi-Agent Messages

    arXiv:2608.14375v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent reasoning systems often use agreement, confidence, or automated scores to decide which messages should shape a final answer. Such filtering assumes that a message likely to be correct is also worth keeping. Yet a wrong a…