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SwarmAgentic: Towards Fully Automated Agentic System Generation via Swarm Intelligence

arXiv 2506.15672 ↗First posted 18 Jun 2025cs.AI cs.MAcited by 18

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → General LLM agent frameworks and benchmarks

Abstract (arXiv)

The rapid progress of Large Language Models has advanced agentic systems in decision-making, coordination, and task execution. Yet, existing agentic system generation frameworks lack full autonomy, missing from-scratch agent generation, self-optimizing agent functionality, and collaboration, limiting adaptability and scalability. We propose SwarmAgentic, a framework for fully automated agentic system generation that constructs agentic systems from scratch and jointly optimizes agent functionality and collaboration as interdependent components through language-driven exploration. To enable efficient search over system-level structures, SwarmAgentic maintains a population of candidate systems and evolves them via feedback-guided updates, drawing inspiration from Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). We evaluate our method on six real-world, open-ended, and exploratory tasks involving high-level planning, system-level coordination, and creative reasoning. Given only a task description and an objective function, SwarmAgentic outperforms all baselines, achieving a +261.8% relative improvement over ADAS on the TravelPlanner benchmark, highlighting the effectiveness of full automation in structurally unconstrained tasks. This framework marks a significant step toward scalable and autonomous agentic system design, bridging swarm intelligence with fully automated system multi-agent generation. Our code is publicly released at https://yaoz720.github.io/SwarmAgentic/.

Key facts. Cited by 18 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in General LLM agent frameworks and benchmarks, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 24 of its 67 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Jun 2025.

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24 of 67 references.

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  9. 2024Model Swarms: Collaborative Search to Adapt LLM Experts via Swarm Intelligencecited by 27

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  2. 2026Mem2Evolve: Towards Self-Evolving Agents via Co-Evolutionary Capability Expansion and Experience Distillationcited by 12
  3. 2025GroundedPRM: Tree-Guided and Fidelity-Aware Process Reward Modeling for Step-Level Reasoningcited by 10
  4. 2026WebArbiter: A Principle-Guided Reasoning Process Reward Model for Web Agentscited by 7
  5. 2025SwarmSys: Decentralized Swarm-Inspired Agents for Scalable and Adaptive Reasoningcited by 5
  6. 2026TacoMAS: Test-Time Co-Evolution of Topology and Capability in LLM-based Multi-Agent Systemscited by 5
  7. 2026MAS-on-the-Fly: In-Context Structural Adaptation of LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systemscited by 3
  8. 2026ProgRouter: Online Progress-Guided Orchestration for Multi-Agent LLM Workflows under Quality-Cost Tradeoffscited by 3
  9. 2026Small Model as Master Orchestrator: Learning Unified Agent-Tool Orchestration with Parallel Subtask Decompositioncited by 2
  10. 2025AI Compute Architecture and Evolution Trendscited by 1
  11. 2026Sigma-Mem: An Online Reliability Memory for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systemscited by 1
  12. 2025IMAGINE: Integrating Multi-Agent System into One Model for Complex Reasoning and Planningcited by 0
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  1. 2026The Inverse-Wisdom Law: Architectural Tribalism and the Consensus Paradox in Agentic Swarmscited by 0
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  3. 2026The Formalism Trap: Are LLM-as-a-Judge Evaluators Blinded by Consensus Mimicry under Social Load?cited by 0
  4. 2026ArcticSwarm: Deferring Early Consensus in Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Researchcited by 0
  5. 2026Pay for the Fault, Not the Flow: Label-Free In-Flow Multi-Agent Workflow Optimizationcited by 0
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