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Jun 19, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Which Multi‑Agent Communication Protocol Wins? UIUC Introduces ProtocolBench at ICML 2026

The UIUC team presents ProtocolBench, a systematic benchmark that compares four multi‑agent communication protocols across four realistic scenarios, revealing distinct trade‑offs in latency, reliability, and security, and proposes ProtocolRouter to automatically select the most suitable protocol per workload.