Relational Priors as Convergence Pressure in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2608.03239 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-04 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-04

Updated: 2026-09-29

Project page: https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/stable/user-guide/core-user-guide/design-patterns/multi-agent-debate.html

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Accuracy — 23× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Multi-Agent System — 10× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Multi-Agent Debate — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consensus Correctness Rate — 4× in this paper
• Cooperation — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Sycophancy — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Papers — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Actor — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaborative Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• S$^3$: Social-network Simulation System with Large Language Model-Empowered Agents
• War and Peace (WarAgent): Large Language Model-based Multi-Agent Simulation of World Wars
• Collaborative Memory: Multi-User Memory Sharing in LLM Agents with Dynamic Access Control
• Researchy Questions: A Dataset of Multi-Perspective, Decompositional Questions for LLM Web Agents
• BrowseComp: A Simple Yet Challenging Benchmark for Browsing Agents
• Talk Isn't Always Cheap: Understanding Failure Modes in Multi-Agent Debate
• Peacemaker or Troublemaker: How Sycophancy Shapes Multi-Agent Debate
• AgentOrchestra: Orchestrating Multi-Agent Intelligence with the Tool-Environment-Agent(TEA) Protocol

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