ICLR2026

MARTI: A Framework for Multi-Agent LLM Systems Reinforced Training and Inference

Kaiyan Zhang, Kai Tian, Runze Liu, Sihang Zeng, Xuekai Zhu, Guoli Jia, Yuchen Fan, Xingtai Lv, Yuxin Zuo, Che Jiang, Yuru wang, Jianyu Wang, Ermo Hua, Xinwei Long, Junqi Gao, Youbang Sun, Zhiyuan Ma, Ganqu Cui, Ning Ding, Biqing Qi, Bowen Zhou

Abstract

We present MARTI (Multi-Agent Reinforced Training and Inference), an opensource framework designed to facilitate scalable and efficient learning of multiagent LLM systems. MARTI supports centralized multi-agent interactions and distributed policy training, with the added capability of multi-turn asynchronous rollouts to enhance training efficiency. The framework includes dynamic workflows for multi-agent interactions, which integrate both rule-based verifiable rewards and LLM-based generative rewards. We validate the effectiveness of MARTI through comprehensive experiments on diverse mathematical tasks, demonstrating that multi-agent LLM-based systems outperform single-agent systems within the same inference budget after convergence. Our contributions lay the foundation for exploring scalable collaborations within LLM-based multi-agent systems and advancing the capabilities of large reasoning models. INTRODUCTION Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), such as DeepSeek-R1 (Guo et al., 2025) and OpenAI o1/o3 (El-Kishky et al., 2025) , highlight the significant role Reinforcement Learning (RL) plays in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) for solving complex problems. Notably, LRMs can explore and generate extended chains of thought using only rule-based outcome rewards. This RL paradigm has also demonstrated considerable progress in other domains, including visual reasoning (Liu et al., 2025d; Zhou et al., 2025; Team et al., 2025) and agentic reasoning (Wang et al., 2025c; Jin et al., 2025) tasks. These studies indicate the effectiveness of scaling up test-time inference computations using RL. However, further performance improvements through post-training RL typically demand substantial computational resources. Additionally, recent research suggests that RL primarily activates intrinsic capabilities and reflective patterns established during pre-training (Gandhi et al., 2025; Yue et al., 2025a; Shah et al., 2025) . Consequently, the initial model's passk performance sets an upper bound for RL-based enhancements (Yue et al., 2025a), which means the base model determines the reasoning limit. Therefore, the most viable approach for significantly boosting policy model performance remains within the scaling laws (Kaplan et al., 2020; Brown et al., 2020), either by training models on larger datasets or increasing the model's parameter size. Regarding the reinforcement learning stage, effectively leveraging the potential of exploration and environmental interaction remains a critical challenge (Silver & Sutton, 2025) . Meanwhile, LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) (Han et al., 2024; Guo et al., 2024) scale inference computation by expanding the number of agents, each adaptively responding to specific tasks. Numerous open-source frameworks for LLM-based MAS are currently available, including AutoGen (Wu et al., 2023a), CAMEL (Li et al., 2023), and MetaGPT (Hong et al., 2024). However, these frameworks predominantly rely on LLM inference. This reliance makes their efficacy highly