The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models have unlocked advanced collaborative reasoning, yet they remain bottlenecked by discrete text communication, which imposes runtime overhead and information quantization loss. While latent state transfer offers an alternative, existing approaches either assume homogeneous sender--receiver architectures or rely on pair-specific learned translators, limiting scalability across diverse model families with disjoint manifolds. We reconceptualize the visual interface of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), trained for natural images, as a continuous communication channel between heterogeneous agents, and instantiate this idea as the \textbf{Vision Wormhole}: a Universal Visual Codec maps reasoning traces into a shared continuous reference space and injects them into the receiver's visual pathway, yielding cross-architecture latent state transfer without per-pair translators. The framework adopts a hub-and-spoke topology that reduces alignment complexity from $O(N^2)$ to $O(N)$, and is trained by label-free teacher--student distillation against the text channel, requiring no parallel hidden-state supervision. Extensive experiments across heterogeneous VLM families (Qwen-VL, Gemma, SmolVLM2, LFM2.5-VL) and nine reasoning benchmarks show that the Vision Wormhole reduces end-to-end wall-clock time across most evaluated settings and yields positive macro-average $Δ$-accuracy.
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