Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · November 2, 2026
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Two machines can each recognize an object well and still fail together. We study classifiers that see different parts of one object and send short messages to a receiver that identifies its class. Coordination asks how to design messages together; cooperation asks whether the team outperforms one sender given the whole budget. On three digit datasets, messages designed together beat messages designed apart by 18.07 to 22.68 percentage points on average with two-bit messages, with gains in all 24 configurations. A fixed agreement, you report the row and I the column, recovers about half this gain, with only the receiver learned. Senders that draw the same distinctions waste a narrow vocabulary, and senders whose distinctions cross multiply it. A team has no more possible messages than one sender with the same budget, so a partner must bring evidence the first lacks. A solvable model shows individual statistics alone cannot determine whether a partnership helps. On MNIST digits, six shared bits remove 49.54 percent of the strongest tested solo's errors on average. Paired measurements correctly predicted most sensor teams would reduce average accuracy on new participants. Who should speak is a property of the pair, and must be measured in pairs.