@article{whendoeslatentcommunicationpayacausalaud, title = {When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs}, author = {Jiaming Cheng and Subhransu Das and Rajiv Ramnath}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2608.04893}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04893}, }