@inproceedings{sun-etal-2026-collaboration,
    title = "The Collaboration Tax: How Much {LLM} Multi-Agent Systems Pay to Coordinate",
    author = "Sun, Weixiang  and
      Wang, Zehong  and
      Huang, Hong  and
      Nelson, Colby  and
      Ma, Yijun  and
      Ye, Yanfang",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.2031/",
    pages = "46258--46281",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}