Reasoning-Tree Divergence Audit

Multiple agents produce independent reasoning traces that are atomised into steps and merged into a shared semantic tree; an adjudicator resolves conflicts by comparing competing branches only at their critical divergence points rather than re-reading full traces.

Properties

family: Evaluation & Ranking
maturity: frontier
diagram: judge
whyMultiAgent: A single judge is susceptible to sycophancy and confabulation-consensus (correlated errors reinforce each other). The tree structure only emerges when N independent traces are cross-compared; localised branch auditing at divergence points is impossible with a single output stream.
mast: [Cat 2][Cat 3]
useCases: [Multi-agent QA where majority-failure cases dominate][Mathematical reasoning with diverse solution paths][Safety-critical decision aggregation resistant to groupthink]
source: AgentAuditor · arXiv:2602.09341

Provenance

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09341

Reasoning-Tree Divergence Audit

Properties

family: Evaluation & Ranking
maturity: frontier
diagram: judge
whyMultiAgent: A single judge is susceptible to sycophancy and confabulation-consensus (correlated errors reinforce each other). The tree structure only emerges when N independent traces are cross-compared; localised branch auditing at divergence points is impossible with a single output stream.
mast: [Cat 2][Cat 3]
useCases: [Multi-agent QA where majority-failure cases dominate][Mathematical reasoning with diverse solution paths][Safety-critical decision aggregation resistant to groupthink]
source: AgentAuditor · arXiv:2602.09341

Provenance

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09341