Does Splitting a Triage Decision Across Agents Hide Bias or Help Catch It? A Multi-Agent Simulation Study of LLM-Based Resource Allocation Under Audit Capacity Constraints

arXiv:2608.06949 · cs.AI, cs.MA · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.MA

Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-07

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Code and data available at https://github.com/Polpii/policy-town

Code: https://github.com/Polpii/policy-town

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

Terminology

• Allocator — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Resource Constraints — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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