TartanMaroon
Multi-agent collaboration in education
When does academic advising need coordination among specialized agents?
Iterative proposal–critique negotiation improves constrained degree planning, with greater benefits on complex tasks than on simple factual queries.
What we studied
TartanBench evaluates advising across 220 queries and five complexity tiers; an interface makes agent coordination visible to users.
My contribution
Co-author; research mentor to Peidi Dong at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar.
How to read the result
The evidence comes from academic advising at Carnegie Mellon University Qatar. Stronger performance on constrained planning does not establish general-purpose oversight or safety.
Paper & authors
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TartanMaroon: Multi-Agent Academic Advising with Iterative Negotiation and Transparent Collaboration [P4]
Iterative proposal–critique negotiation improves constrained degree planning, with greater benefits on complex tasks than on simple factual queries.
2026. ACL 2026, System Demonstrations.