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ARCANA: A Reflective Multi-Agent Program Synthesis Framework for ARC-AGI-2 Reasoning

ARCANA is a collaborative multi-agent framework for solving ARC-AGI-2 tasks under strict test-time and hardware constraints. It decomposes each task into iterative perception, hypothesis generation, symbolic execution, and reflective refinement. Using a differentiable blackboard and learned meta-controller, it combines structured program search with adaptive multi-turn correction, improving reasoning efficiency and solution quality on abstract transformation tasks.

SourcearXiv AIAuthor: Kunbo Zhang, Lei Fu, Zeyu Wang, Zijing Liu, Kejian Tong

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[Submitted on 10 Jul 2026]

Title:ARCANA: A Reflective Multi-Agent Program Synthesis Framework for ARC-AGI-2 Reasoning

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Abstract:We present ARCANA, a collaborative multi agent framework for solving ARC AGI 2 tasks under strict test time and hardware constraints. ARCANA decomposes each task into iterative perception, hypothesis generation, symbolic execution, and reflective refinement. A perceptual grounding agent builds object centric scene graphs from raw grids, a latent program policy proposes diverse DSL programs, a symbolic executor verifies candidates on demonstrations, and a reflective agent synthesizes failure driven feedback for the next turn. These agents communicate through a shared differentiable blackboard and are scheduled by a learned meta controller. The design combines structured program search with adaptive multi turn correction, improving reasoning efficiency and solution quality on challenging abstract transformation tasks.

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Cite as: arXiv:2607.09059 [cs.AI]

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.09059

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From: Kejian Tong [view email] [v1] Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:03:42 UTC (6,052 KB)

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