arxivcs.NIcs.AI2026-07-16
ANet Patu-1: The Value of Connection in the Agent Network
Mu Yuan, Jinke Song, Zhaomeng Zhou, Lan Zhang
The Internet taught us that the value of a network depends on \emph{how} its nodes connect: broadcast stars scale as $V\!\propto\!N$ (Sarnoff), fully-connected meshes as $N^2$ (Metcalfe), and group-forming networks as $2^{N}$ (Reed). We ask the analogous question for networks of…