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CoMemBench: Benchmarking Collaborative Memory Boundaries across Multi-Agent Workflow Topologies

Sen Zhao, Ruiqi Kong, Zuyu Zhang, Lifeng Shen +4 more

Published

Sep 26, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

25/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

55% (Moderate)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Sep 29, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this for comparison and orientation, not as your only source.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A benchmark-and-metrics comparison anchor.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
25/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information must remain isolated. We call this task-conditioned scope of information a collaborative memory boundary. Workflow topology determines which intermediate artifacts are applicable to which downstream workers and when they cease to be valid, thereby providing a structural stress dimension for sharing and isolation. Existing memory benchmarks primarily evaluate retention and retrieval, whereas multi-agent benchmarks emphasize coordination and end-to-end completion, leaving topology-conditioned memory boundaries largely unmeasured. We introduce CoMemBench, an execution-grounded benchmark for collaborative memory sharing and isolation across multi-agent workflow topologies. It constructs 800 composite workflows across four domains from source-grounded dependency graphs, with node-local specifications, verifiable artifact handoffs, native evaluators, and matched isolation challenges. CoMemBench measures workflow completion, verified node progress, required-handoff reliability, isolation robustness, and token cost. Experiments reveal a sharing-isolation trade-off: broader context improves information availability but can weaken isolation, while system rankings shift across topologies and artifact violations.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information must remain isolated."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information must remain isolated."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information must remain isolated."

Benchmarks / Datasets

strong

Comembench

Useful for quick benchmark comparison.

"We introduce CoMemBench, an execution-grounded benchmark for collaborative memory sharing and isolation across multi-agent workflow topologies."

Reported Metrics

strong

Token cost

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"CoMemBench measures workflow completion, verified node progress, required-handoff reliability, isolation robustness, and token cost."

Benchmarks and datasets

Comembench

Reported metrics

token cost
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Unit of annotation
Ranking
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
Multi Agent
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Moderate
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information must remain isolated.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information must remain isolated.
  • We call this task-conditioned scope of information a collaborative memory boundary.
  • Workflow topology determines which intermediate artifacts are applicable to which downstream workers and when they cease to be valid, thereby providing a structural stress dimension for sharing and isolation.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information must remain isolated.
  • Existing memory benchmarks primarily evaluate retention and retrieval, whereas multi-agent benchmarks emphasize coordination and end-to-end completion, leaving topology-conditioned memory boundaries largely unmeasured.
  • We introduce CoMemBench, an execution-grounded benchmark for collaborative memory sharing and isolation across multi-agent workflow topologies.

Why it matters for eval

  • Multi-agent workflows require task-relevant information to be shared across agents, while irrelevant, stale, unverified, or incompatible information must remain isolated.
  • We introduce CoMemBench, an execution-grounded benchmark for collaborative memory sharing and isolation across multi-agent workflow topologies.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    Detected: Comembench

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: token cost