Beyond Text: Cache Compression and Knowledge Transfer in Multi-Agent Systems
A Reproducible Study of Fidelity, Communication Cost, and Repeated Handoffs
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…