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Beyond Text: Cache Compression and Knowledge Transfer in Multi-Agent Systems

A Reproducible Study of Fidelity, Communication Cost, and Repeated Handoffs

Simon-Pierre Boucher · UQO Working Papers · October 2026 · v1.0

Agents built on language models hand information to one another as text, summaries, structured evidence, shared-memory references or, when they share a checkpoint, attention state (the KV cache). This paper asks under which task, model, cache, network and reuse conditions each representation preserves task-relevant…