# Beyond Symmetric Agents: Cognitive Diversity and Multi-Agent Debate in Small Language Models

**Published:** September 30, 2026
**Author:** Leonardo Ferreira, Gardenia Liu, Kaden Zheng
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2609.35875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent debate (MAD) reportedly improves reasoning and factuality over single-model inference, but prior work treats agents as symmetric peers, leaving open what drives the gains. We test the hypothesis that cognitive diversity…

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