More Agents Is All You Need
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The paper shows that simply running more independent LLM agents and voting produces reliable scaling gains across tasks, without any method changes.
Sampling-and-voting: For a given task, run N independent LLM agents on the same query, then majority-vote over their answers - a minimalist ensemble.
Scales with agent count: Performance improves monotonically with more agents across reasoning, coding, and QA benchmarks, with larger gains on harder problems.
Orthogonal to other tricks: The gains stack on top of existing improvements like prompt engineering, CoT, and RAG, making ensembling a free-standing lever.
Implication: Raw parallel ensembling is surprisingly strong compared to architecturally complex multi-agent systems and should be a baseline in any comparative study.
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