@article{whendomultiagentsystemshelpaninformation, title = {When Do Multi-Agent Systems Help? An Information Bottleneck Perspective}, author = {Wendi Yu and Lianhao Zhou and Xiangjue Dong and Sai Sudarshan Barath and Declan Staunton and Byung-Jun Yoon and Xiaoning Qian and James Caverlee and Shuiwang Ji}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2607.16133}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16133}, }