Orchestrated multi agents sustain accuracy under clinical-scale workloads compared to a single agent.

Klang, Eyal, Mahmud Omar, Ganesh Raut, Reem Agbareia, Prem Timsina, Robert Freeman, Nicholas Gavin, et al. 2026. “Orchestrated Multi Agents Sustain Accuracy under Clinical-Scale Workloads Compared to a Single Agent.”. Npj Health Systems 3 (1).

Abstract

We tested state-of-the-art LLMs under clinical-scale workloads using two designs: a single agent handling all tasks and a multi-agent orchestrator assigning each task to a dedicated worker. Across retrieval, extraction, and dosing tasks, batch sizes ranged from 5-80. Multi-agent accuracy remained high (90.6% at 5 tasks; 65.3% at 80), while single-agent accuracy collapsed (73.1% to 16.6%; p < 0.01). Multi-agent runs used up to 65-fold fewer tokens and limited latency growth. These findings show that lightweight orchestration preserves accuracy and efficiency under mixed-task clinical loads.

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