Power and Limitations of Aggregation in Compound AI Systems
arXiv:2602.21556v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: When designing compound AI systems, a common approach is to query multiple copies of the same model and aggregate the responses to produce a synthesized output. Given the homogeneity of these models, this raises the question of whether aggregation unl...
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