Peiyan Dong
Author directory2026
RCR-Router:Role-Conditioned Context Routing for Resource-Efficient Multi-Agent LLM Systems
Jun Liu | Pu Zhao | Zhenglun Kong | Wenbin Zhang | Fan Yang | Peiyan Dong | Changdi Yang | Wuzhe Fan | Tianqin Li | Hao Tang | Geng Yuan | Wei Niu | Joannah Nanjekye | Xue Lin | Dong Huang | Yanzhi Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Jun Liu | Pu Zhao | Zhenglun Kong | Wenbin Zhang | Fan Yang | Peiyan Dong | Changdi Yang | Wuzhe Fan | Tianqin Li | Hao Tang | Geng Yuan | Wei Niu | Joannah Nanjekye | Xue Lin | Dong Huang | Yanzhi Wang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly organized into multi-agent systems for complex reasoning and decision-making tasks. However, scaling such systems can substantially increase inference cost, especially when multiple agents repeatedly process overlapping or role-irrelevant context. Many existing multi-agent frameworks focus on orchestration and role specialization, but still rely on full-context sharing or static context routing, leading to redundant token consumption, increased runtime, and inefficient memory utilization. We present Role-Conditioned Context Routing (RCR), an execution-time layer that allocates role-relevant shared-memory items to agents under token budgets. Given a structured shared memory and a set of role-specialized agents, RCR selectively routes task-relevant memory items to each agent according to its role, optional task-stage metadata, and token budget. RCR integrates role-conditioned relevance scoring, token-budgeted memory selection, and iterative memory updates to reduce redundant context exposure during multi-agent execution. Experiments on multi-hop QA, embodied reasoning (ALFWorld), and web-based decision-making (WebShop) show that RCR reduces token usage by 35% on average and runtime by 38% on average relative to Full-Context, while maintaining or improving task performance.