TCAndon-Router: Adaptive Reasoning Router for Multi-Agent Collaboration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04544v1
• Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2026 03:17:33 GMT
• Title: TCAndon-Router: Adaptive Reasoning Router for Multi-Agent Collaboration
• Authors: Jiuzhou Zhao, Chunrong Chen, Chenqi Qiao, Lebin Zheng, Minqi Han, Yanchi Liu Yongzhou Xu Xiaochuan Xu Min Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) have become a powerful paradigm for building high performance intelligent applications.<n>Within these systems, the router responsible for determining which expert agents should handle a given query plays a crucial role in overall performance.<n>To address these challenges, we propose TCAndon-TCAR: an adaptive reasoning router for multi-agent collaboration.<n>Experiments on public datasets and real enterprise data demonstrate that TCAR significantly improves routing accuracy, reduces routing conflicts, and remains robust in ambiguous scenarios.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Multi-Agent Systems(MAS) have become a powerful paradigm for building high performance intelligent applications. Within these systems, the router responsible for determining which expert agents should handle a given query plays a crucial role in overall performance. Existing routing strategies generally fall into two categories: performance routing, which balances latency and cost across models of different sizes, and task routing, which assigns queries to domain-specific experts to improve accuracy. In real-world enterprise applications, task routing is more suitable; however, most existing approaches rely on static single-label decisions, which introduce two major limitations: (i) difficulty in seamlessly integrating new agents as business domains expand, and (ii) routing conflicts caused by overlapping agent capabilities, ultimately degrading accuracy and robustness.To address these challenges, we propose TCAndon-Router(TCAR): an adaptive reasoning router for multi-agent collaboration. Unlike traditional routers, TCAR supports dynamic agent onboarding and first generates a natural-language reasoning chain before predicting a set of candidate agents capable of handling the query. In addition, we design a collaborative execution pipeline in which selected agents independently produce responses, which are then aggregated and refined into a single high-quality response by a dedicated Refining Agent.Experiments on public datasets and real enterprise data demonstrate that TCAR significantly improves routing accuracy, reduces routing conflicts, and remains robust in ambiguous scenarios. We have released TCAR at https://huggingface.co/tencent/TCAndon-Router to support future research on explainable and collaborative multi-agent routing.

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