{"ID":23475048,"CreatedAt":"2026-09-18T01:09:05.407443952Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-09-20T18:11:56.143995915Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19774","arxiv_id":"2609.19774","title":"Treadstone: A Social-Media-Inspired Platform for Multi-Agent Collaborative Data Analysis","abstract":"Coordinating human analysts with autonomous AI agents faces the same challenges as human-to-human collaboration: sharing intermediate results, avoiding conflicts, and maintaining group awareness. Current tools rely on unstructured messaging or single-threaded chatbot interaction, which lack the structure to track evolving hypotheses or link claims to evidence. We propose agentic social data analysis, a collaboration paradigm extending social data analysis with a shared coordination feed modeled on the content timeline in social media services. We instantiate this concept in TREADSTONE, a platform where human and AI agents asynchronously post, link, and contest analytical claims via threaded messages within a shared feed. By allowing agents to proactively broadcast hypotheses and enabling users to steer the analysis through lightweight curation, Treadstone seeks to balance machine autonomy with human analytical control. A qualitative user study shows that Treadstone fosters collaboration while preserving human analytical agency, in contrast to the solitary experience of conventional chatbot interaction.","short_abstract":"Coordinating human analysts with autonomous AI agents faces the same challenges as human-to-human collaboration: sharing intermediate results, avoiding conflicts, and maintaining group awareness. Current tools rely on unstructured messaging or single-threaded chatbot interaction, which lack the structure to track evolv...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19774","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.19774v1","authors":"[\"Hyunwook Lee\",\"Sungbeom Cho\",\"William Benjamin\",\"Changhee Lee\",\"Hyotaek Jeon\",\"Daeun Jeong\",\"Sungbok Shin\",\"Sungahn Ko\",\"Niklas Elmqvist\"]","published":"2026-09-17T06:39:53Z","proceeding":"cs.HC","tasks":"[\"cs.HC\"]","methods":"[]","has_code":false}