Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs

As of 9 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 44 of 44 outbound references and 0 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2608.04893.

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Observation 659a0e44-ab35-475f-8658-5f752f96dfe1 · outbound

This paper cites Phi-4 Technical Report.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Phi-4 Technical Report

Reference 1

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Observation 1c2f4e68-df0a-46b1-89ad-d19e71edee58 · outbound

This paper cites When Latent Agents Lie: KV-Cache Integrity in Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs When Latent Agents Lie: KV-Cache Integrity in Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration

Reference 4

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This paper cites Make Each Token Count: Towards Improving Long-Context Performance with KV Cache Eviction.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Make Each Token Count: Towards Improving Long-Context Performance with KV Cache Eviction

Reference 5

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This paper cites Transferring linear features across language models with model stitching.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Transferring linear features across language models with model stitching

Reference 6

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Observation 45dcd470-0689-48af-b11f-3f02c5aa29d0 · outbound

This paper cites See What I See, Know What I Think: Dense Latent Communication Across Heterogeneous Agents.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs See What I See, Know What I Think: Dense Latent Communication Across Heterogeneous Agents

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Observation 3dd8f4a7-8ea6-4302-8561-7168d81e66c5 · outbound

This paper cites Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Think you have Solved Question Answering? Try ARC, the AI2 Reasoning Challenge

Reference 9

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Observation 88403d97-a960-4245-9fe6-306b998fcd21 · outbound

This paper cites Enabling agents to communicate entirely in latent space.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Enabling agents to communicate entirely in latent space

Reference 12

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Observation 6c1b22e7-e98e-470f-9de6-f9a4bdcf661c · outbound

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Unresolved cited work

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Observation 0929876e-c47b-43ee-bb23-35af8e96d00c · outbound

This paper cites Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Training Large Language Models to Reason in a Continuous Latent Space

Reference 15

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Observation 9ef24712-81d9-4d65-9753-acde28a58543 · outbound

This paper cites When Less Latent Leads to Better Relay: Information-Preserving Compression for Latent Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs When Less Latent Leads to Better Relay: Information-Preserving Compression for Latent Multi-Agent LLM Collaboration

Reference 20

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Observation 6242869f-465b-4b29-97a8-0b0f6b605d6a · outbound

This paper cites The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems

Reference 21

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This paper cites Beyond tokens: a unified framework for latent communication in LLM-based multi-agent systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Beyond tokens: a unified framework for latent communication in LLM-based multi-agent systems

Reference 22

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This paper cites Locating and editing factual associations in GPT.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Locating and editing factual associations in GPT

Reference 23

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Observation 7cc6f3ba-abcc-4f1d-9ecc-e5c8e3d3bd04 · outbound

This paper cites Igor Mordatch and Pieter Abbeel.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Igor Mordatch and Pieter Abbeel

Reference 25

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Observation 56e51981-62cd-49f4-be5f-39d11b5e0b8d · outbound

This paper cites HyLaT: Efficient Multi-Agent Communication via Hybrid Latent-Text Protocol.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs HyLaT: Efficient Multi-Agent Communication via Hybrid Latent-Text Protocol

Reference 26

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Observation e66b1440-36d3-45b0-86c0-a3b5fa008b7d · outbound

This paper cites RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs with Preference Data.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs RouteLLM: Learning to Route LLMs with Preference Data

Reference 28

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Observation ac1998e9-3400-4851-b1e5-a096ea52a539 · outbound

This paper cites Activation space interventions can be transferred between large language models.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Activation space interventions can be transferred between large language models

Reference 29

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Observation 02ef90ac-400c-43c9-aeb5-493a870ad82f · outbound

This paper cites Representational Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Committees: Measurement and Diversity-Aware Consensus.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Representational Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Committees: Measurement and Diversity-Aware Consensus

Reference 30

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Observation ec8b33b8-e367-4edb-b68c-60497d65531e · outbound

This paper cites Communicating activations between language model agents.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Communicating activations between language model agents

Reference 31

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Observation cdd6afec-9552-40f2-b626-fa2dae5c5c2a · outbound

This paper cites Xiangyu Shi, Marco Chiesa, Gerald Q.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Xiangyu Shi, Marco Chiesa, Gerald Q

Reference 32

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Observation 02e450ba-7379-4379-9fa7-c342b3e9da36 · outbound

This paper cites Learning multiagent communication with backpropagation.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Learning multiagent communication with backpropagation

Reference 33

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Observation 73c60fd5-827f-4a72-a454-5721e295e67d · outbound

This paper cites Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Unveiling Latent Attack in Latent-based Multi-Agent Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Unveiling Latent Attack in Latent-based Multi-Agent Systems

Reference 34

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Observation 8a0f5e2b-80d2-4081-be07-3f66aec34a9c · outbound

This paper cites Interpretability in the wild: a circuit for indirect object identification in GPT-2 small.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Interpretability in the wild: a circuit for indirect object identification in GPT-2 small

Reference 35

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Observation 7ecc59dc-9bfd-4862-9214-7045bcc0c047 · outbound

This paper cites Learning to Communicate: Toward End-to-End Optimization of Multi-Agent Language Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Learning to Communicate: Toward End-to-End Optimization of Multi-Agent Language Systems

Reference 36

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This paper cites Towards best practices of activation patching in language models: Metrics and methods.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Towards best practices of activation patching in language models: Metrics and methods

Reference 37

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Observation 93a97500-b92a-42e8-9bcf-3b197c95dd49 · outbound

This paper cites Do Latent Channels Actually Communicate? A Causal Audit of Latent Multi-Agent LLM.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Do Latent Channels Actually Communicate? A Causal Audit of Latent Multi-Agent LLM

Reference 38

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Observation 0a88aab2-b674-47a2-a156-06fb990efa9b · outbound

This paper cites A Negative Result on Cross-Model Activation Transfer in a Pythia Multi-Hop Setting.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs A Negative Result on Cross-Model Activation Transfer in a Pythia Multi-Hop Setting

Reference 39

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Observation 2e2c06e6-0069-46c0-bc41-b5ac70c4d377 · outbound

This paper cites Thought communication in multiagent collaboration.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Thought communication in multiagent collaboration

Reference 40

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Observation 71ab668a-eb72-4ef5-a2c3-84aa0e740bc4 · outbound

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Latent collaboration in multi-agent systems

Reference 41

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Observation 84453342-f778-4954-aaae-af9b716fdc0f · outbound

This paper cites sign-mixed.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs sign-mixed

Reference 42

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This paper cites See Liu (2026); Chen et al.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs See Liu (2026); Chen et al

Reference 44

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This paper cites recorded in advance.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs recorded in advance

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Observation 699e1b92-e0b0-4a82-9a06-fe1cb51e20ff · outbound

This paper cites QKVShare: Quantized KV-Cache Handoff for Multi-Agent On-Device LLMs.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs QKVShare: Quantized KV-Cache Handoff for Multi-Agent On-Device LLMs

Reference 1979

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This paper cites Ascend Cluster.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Ascend Cluster

Reference 1987

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Observation 8d96376e-f29d-4816-9f3d-cc2eebc31d6c · outbound

This paper cites LatentMem: Customizing latent memory for multi-agent systems.ArXiv preprint, abs/2602.03036, 2026a.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs LatentMem: Customizing latent memory for multi-agent systems.ArXiv preprint, abs/2602.03036, 2026a

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This paper cites Angeliki Lazaridou, Alexander Peysakhovich, and Marco Baroni.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Angeliki Lazaridou, Alexander Peysakhovich, and Marco Baroni

Reference 2017

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This paper cites Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems

Reference 2018

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This paper cites Agent Primitives: Reusable Latent Building Blocks for Multi-Agent Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Agent Primitives: Reusable Latent Building Blocks for Multi-Agent Systems

Reference 2020

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Tenenbaum, and Igor Mordatch

Reference 2021

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Observation 55a65dd6-379f-4124-a571-e4eff58a94f6 · outbound

This paper cites Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Llama 3.2: Revolutionizing edge AI and vision with open, customizable models

Reference 2022

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This paper cites What Disease does this Patient Have? A Large-scale Open Domain Question Answering Dataset from Medical Exams.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs What Disease does this Patient Have? A Large-scale Open Domain Question Answering Dataset from Medical Exams

Reference 2023

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This paper cites ReST-KV: Robust KV Cache Eviction with Layer-wise Output Reconstruction and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs ReST-KV: Robust KV Cache Eviction with Layer-wise Output Reconstruction and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing

Reference 2024

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When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs Unresolved cited work

Reference 2025

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Observation 678e29b1-47f0-4283-acad-11bfa5bee7bd · outbound

This paper cites LCGuard: Latent Communication Guard for Safe KV Sharing in Multi-Agent Systems.

When Does Latent Communication Pay? A Causal Audit of Relayed KV Caches in Multi-Agent LLMs LCGuard: Latent Communication Guard for Safe KV Sharing in Multi-Agent Systems

Reference 2026

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