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LLMs' consensus formation studied under competing incentives

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A new simulation study published on arXiv explores how large language models (LLMs) form consensus in multi-agent environments, especially when incentives conflict. Researchers developed an evaluation based on the Network Consensus game, where agents must agree on a color to gain payoffs, with varying incentives for each color. The study found that open-source LLMs struggled to reach consensus compared to humans, requiring global communication, while ChatGPT 5.6-sol achieved consensus even with limited or no communication by exhibiting lower stubbornness and greater majority-following. AI

IMPACT Provides insights into how LLMs might coordinate or conflict in multi-agent systems, crucial for designing future AI collectives.

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  1. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · Janina A. Hoffmann ·

    Drivers of LLM Consensus Formation Under Competing Incentives: A Simulation Study

    Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in multi-agent environments that produce unanimous agreement, both in intended interactions that need coordination and in unintended emergent interactions. Consequently, understanding how LLMs with competing incentives reach …

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