{
  "id": "2610.08820",
  "title": "Task-Oriented Key-Layer KV Communication for Efficient Latent Multi-Agent Collaboration",
  "authors": "Dongsen Zhang, Peipei Li, Zekun Li, Wenjun Xu",
  "first_public": "2026-09-24",
  "added_at": "2026-10-18",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2610.08820",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08820",
  "lens": [
    "continuous"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "cache-memory",
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "token-wise",
    "stateful"
  ],
  "training": [
    "inference-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "capability",
    "efficiency",
    "architecture"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "language",
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Lets agents perform hidden-state reasoning and pass working memory through the key-value cache of one selected transformer layer. Reuses that layer as the entry point for subsequent reasoning updates, avoiding earlier layers and decoding only the final agent's response into text.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-10-18",
  "author_names": [
    "Dongsen Zhang",
    "Peipei Li",
    "Zekun Li",
    "Wenjun Xu"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2026-09-24",
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  "markdown_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.08820/index.md",
  "bibtex_url": "https://latent-implicit-thinking.github.io/papers/2610.08820/citation.bib",
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