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

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Authors: Ruizhe Zhang, Xinke Jiang, Zhibang Yang, Zhixin Zhang, Jiaran Gao, Yuzhen Xiao, Tao Feng, Yue Fang, Yuxuan Liu, Ruiqing Li, Hongbin Lai, Huheng Huang
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Abstract

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.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation AI-based Problem Solving and Planning Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
9 January 2026
Document type
Preprint