Journal article
Perspectives Without Independence: Multi-Agent and Multi-Persona Reasoning Under Compute-Normalised Comparison, Why the Gains That Survive Are Not the Ones Diversity Predicts, and the Controls That Would Tell Them Apart
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Multi-agent debate, multi-persona prompting and related schemes are usually justified by diversity of viewpoint: several perspectives err differently, so their combination is more reliable than any one of them. That justification is a claim…