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Team of Thoughts: Efficient Test-time Scaling of Agentic Systems through Orchestrated Tool Calling

Jeffrey T. H. Wong, Zixi Zhang, Junyi Liu, Yiren Zhao · Feb 18, 2026 · Citations: 0

Automatic Metrics Coding Math Multi Agent
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Best use

Background context only

What to verify

Validate the exact study setup in the full paper before operational use.

Evidence quality

Moderate

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Abstract

Existing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) typically rely on homogeneous model configurations, failing to exploit the diverse expertise inherent in different post-trained architectures. We propose Team-of-Thoughts, a heterogeneous MAS framework that treats diverse models as specialized tools within an orchestrator-driven paradigm. Team-of-Thoughts introduces two novel components: (1) Orchestrator Calibration, which identifies models with superior coordination and synthesis capabilities, and (2) Agent Self-Assessment, a protocol where tool agents profile their own domain-specific strengths to guide selection. At inference, the orchestrator dynamically activates the most compatible agents based on these profiles to maximize capability coverage. Across five mathematical reasoning and code generation benchmarks, Team-of-Thoughts consistently outperforms individual models and existing MAS baselines. Notably, on AIME24 and LiveCodeBench, Team-of-Thoughts achieves 96.00% and 77.91% accuracy, respectively, significantly improving over homogeneous role-play baselines (80.00% and 65.93%).

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.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A benchmark-and-metrics comparison anchor.

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

40/100 • Low

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

Human Feedback Signal

Not explicit in abstract metadata

Evaluation Signal

Detected

Usefulness for eval research

Adjacent candidate

Extraction confidence: Moderate

If you are doing eval pipeline work, start here:

Human Eval Hub LLM-as-Judge Hub Pairwise Preference Hub Tool-Use Eval Hub

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.

Evaluation Modes

strong

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

Quality Controls

strong

Calibration

Calibration/adjudication style controls detected.

Benchmarks / Datasets

strong

LiveCodeBench

Useful for quick benchmark comparison.

Reported Metrics

strong

Accuracy

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

Rater Population

strong

Domain Experts

Helpful for staffing comparability.

Human Feedback Details

  • Uses human feedback: No
  • Feedback types: None
  • Rater population: Domain Experts
  • Unit of annotation: Unknown
  • Expertise required: Math, Coding

Evaluation Details

  • Evaluation modes: Automatic Metrics
  • Agentic eval: Multi Agent
  • Quality controls: Calibration
  • Evidence quality: Moderate
  • Use this page as: Background context only

Protocol And Measurement Signals

Benchmarks / Datasets

LiveCodeBench

Reported Metrics

accuracy

Research Brief

Deterministic synthesis

Existing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) typically rely on homogeneous model configurations, failing to exploit the diverse expertise inherent in different post-trained architectures. HFEPX signals include Automatic Metrics, Multi Agent with confidence 0.65. Updated from current HFEPX corpus.

Generated Apr 13, 2026, 6:33 AM · Grounded in abstract + metadata only

Key Takeaways

  • Existing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) typically rely on homogeneous model configurations, failing to exploit the diverse expertise inherent in different post-trained architectures.
  • We propose Team-of-Thoughts, a heterogeneous MAS framework that treats diverse models as specialized tools within an orchestrator-driven paradigm.

Researcher Actions

  • Treat this as method context, then pivot to protocol-specific HFEPX hubs.
  • Cross-check benchmark overlap: LiveCodeBench.
  • Validate metric comparability (accuracy).

Caveats

  • Generated from title, abstract, and extracted metadata only; full-paper implementation details are not parsed.
  • Extraction confidence is probabilistic and should be validated for critical decisions.

Research Summary

Contribution Summary

  • Existing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) typically rely on homogeneous model configurations, failing to exploit the diverse expertise inherent in different post-trained architectures.
  • We propose Team-of-Thoughts, a heterogeneous MAS framework that treats diverse models as specialized tools within an orchestrator-driven paradigm.
  • Team-of-Thoughts introduces two novel components: (1) Orchestrator Calibration, which identifies models with superior coordination and synthesis capabilities, and (2) Agent Self-Assessment, a protocol where tool agents profile their own…

Why It Matters For Eval

  • Existing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) typically rely on homogeneous model configurations, failing to exploit the diverse expertise inherent in different post-trained architectures.
  • Team-of-Thoughts introduces two novel components: (1) Orchestrator Calibration, which identifies models with superior coordination and synthesis capabilities, and (2) Agent Self-Assessment, a protocol where tool agents profile their own…

Researcher Checklist

  • Gap: Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Pass: Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Pass: Quality control reporting appears

    Detected: Calibration

  • Pass: Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    Detected: LiveCodeBench

  • Pass: Metric reporting is present

    Detected: accuracy

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