State-Centric: An Agent Architecture as an Alternative to the Loop Paradigm
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Authors
- Yuancheng Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6670-5284)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22846547
- Primary Topic
- Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
- Type
- preprint