In alignment-inducing multi-agent settings, LLM agents show decision divergence between public and off-the-record channels rising from a 3% baseline to roughly 40%, consistent across stance, semantic, NLI, and survey measures.
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Introduces measurable coupling gain gamma and randomized-initial-condition diagnostic to distinguish genuine social dynamics from LLM prior artifacts in agent societies.
The paper introduces a three-source decomposition showing that answer flips in multi-agent LLM debate include 37% spontaneous instability and 29% harmful conformity, with even vacuous reasoning persuading 20-39% of resistant agents and interventions reducing harmful conformity by 13.6 points.
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When Is Emergent Consensus Real? A Measured Coupling Gain and a Validity Diagnostic for LLM Agent Societies
Introduces measurable coupling gain gamma and randomized-initial-condition diagnostic to distinguish genuine social dynamics from LLM prior artifacts in agent societies.
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Not All Flips Are Conformity: Decomposing Stance Convergence in Multi-Agent LLM Debate
The paper introduces a three-source decomposition showing that answer flips in multi-agent LLM debate include 37% spontaneous instability and 29% harmful conformity, with even vacuous reasoning persuading 20-39% of resistant agents and interventions reducing harmful conformity by 13.6 points.