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StackPlanner: A Centralized Hierarchical Multi-Agent System with Task-Experience Memory Management

Published: January 9, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.05890v1

By: Ruizhe Zhang , Xinke Jiang , Zhibang Yang and more

Potential Business Impact:

Helps AI teams work together on hard jobs.

Business Areas:
Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Science and Engineering, Software

Multi-agent systems based on large language models, particularly centralized architectures, have recently shown strong potential for complex and knowledge-intensive tasks. However, central agents often suffer from unstable long-horizon collaboration due to the lack of memory management, leading to context bloat, error accumulation, and poor cross-task generalization. To address both task-level memory inefficiency and the inability to reuse coordination experience, we propose StackPlanner, a hierarchical multi-agent framework with explicit memory control. StackPlanner addresses these challenges by decoupling high-level coordination from subtask execution with active task-level memory control, and by learning to retrieve and exploit reusable coordination experience via structured experience memory and reinforcement learning. Experiments on multiple deep-search and agent system benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in enabling reliable long-horizon multi-agent collaboration.

Country of Origin
🇨🇳 China

Page Count
16 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Artificial Intelligence