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MARS system uses specialized LLM agents to boost competitive programming performance

Researchers have developed MARS, a Multi-Agent Relay System designed to improve large language model performance in competitive programming. Unlike previous multi-agent systems that use generic roles, MARS employs topic-specialist agents (e.g., dynamic programming, graphs) grounded by retrieval-augmented generation. This specialized approach allows MARS to achieve a 0.624 pass rate on the CodeContests benchmark using Gemma 4, a significant improvement over direct prompting and a reduction in cost and variance compared to other systems. AI

IMPACT This specialized multi-agent approach could significantly improve LLM performance in complex coding tasks and other domains requiring domain-specific expertise.

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COVERAGE [4]

  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Andrei Mikhailov, Mikhail Burtsev, Alsu Sagirova ·

    MARS: Multi-Specialist LLM Relay System for Competitive Programming

    arXiv:2608.23918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models excel at code generation, yet competitive programming exposes a persistent failure mode: existing multi-agent pipelines distribute work over generic planner, coder, and debugger roles and delegate the choice of…

  2. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Alsu Sagirova ·

    MARS: Multi-Specialist LLM Relay System for Competitive Programming

    Large Language Models excel at code generation, yet competitive programming exposes a persistent failure mode: existing multi-agent pipelines distribute work over generic planner, coder, and debugger roles and delegate the choice of algorithmic technique to the backbone alone. We…

  3. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    MARS: Multi-Specialist LLM Relay System for Competitive Programming

    Large Language Models excel at code generation, yet competitive programming exposes a persistent failure mode: existing multi-agent pipelines distribute work over generic planner, coder, and debugger roles and delegate the choice of algorithmic technique to the backbone alone. We…

  4. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    MARS: Multi-Specialist LLM Relay System for Competitive Programming

    MARS uses retrieval-augmented specialist agents for algorithmic topics to iteratively generate, test, and refine C++ solutions, improving competitive programming pass rates with lower cost.