# IF-MAP: Influence-Function-Inspired Agent Prioritization in Multi-Agent Systems > Source: > Published: 2026-10-23 17:40:02+00:00 Improving every agent in an LLM-based multi-agent system can be prohibitively costly, making it important to identify which agent should be prioritized to achieve the greatest system-level gain with limited resources. Failure attribution can inform this decision, but an agent's responsibility for fa