# Multi-Agent Debate

> Multi-agent debate has several model instances propose answers, read each other's reasoning, and revise their answers over multiple rounds until they converge.

- Identifier: PTL-0051
- Category: Self-Critique & Verification
- Canonical URL: https://protologue.com/t/multi-agent-debate/
- Also known as: LLM debate, society of minds
- Introduced: 2023

## Description

Du et al. found that debate improved mathematical reasoning and factual accuracy over single-model answers.

## Related terms

- [Mixture-of-Agents](https://protologue.com/t/mixture-of-agents/)
- [Self-Consistency](https://protologue.com/t/self-consistency/)

## Sources

- Du et al. (2023). Improving Factuality and Reasoning in Language Models through Multiagent Debate. https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14325

## Cite this entry

Protologue. (2026). Multi-Agent Debate. In Protologue: A Taxonomy of Prompting and LLM Techniques (v1.0.0, PTL-0051). https://protologue.com/t/multi-agent-debate/

License: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)