Decentralized Refinement reduces realism and readability failures faster than both Centralized strategies¶

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q2 i? For realism and readability, Decentralized Refinement converges to a low failure count faster than both Centralized strategies, achieving minimal failure counts by the second refinement iteration. → Fareya Ikram 2026

Evidence¶

Fareya Ikram 2026¶

Fareya Ikram, Nischal Ashok Kumar, Junyang Lu, Hunter McNichols, Candace Walkington, Neil Heffernan, and Andrew S. Lan. (2026). A Multi-Agent Approach to Validate and Refine LLM-Generated Personalized Math Problems. arXiv preprint. https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.05160 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2604.05160

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Comparison of three refinement strategies on 600 ASSISTments problems under identical settings (maximum of k=3 refinement iterations, GPT-5.2 with temperature= 0), with failure counts plotted in Fig. 2. The article reports the convergence contrast between Decentralized Refinement and the two Centralized strategies for realism and readability; no effect size is printed.

"For realism and readability, we observe that Decentralized Refinement converges to a low failure count faster than both Centralized strategies, achieving minimal failure counts by the second refinement iteration."

Discussion¶

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