arXiv AI

Emergent Culture in Minimal LLM Systems

arXiv:2606. 30668v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: What happens when LLM agents operate with no context outside a turn, minimal prompting, and simple tools?

arXiv Computation and Language
5d ago

SwarmWorld: Stigmergic technological evolution in societies of language-model agents

SwarmWorld demonstrates that homogeneous language‑model agents can self‑organize into evolving technological societies without assigned roles or direct communication. In a spatial environment, agents explore, process resources, construct artifacts, and write executable controllers that are later evaluated by a deterministic simulator. The resulting societies develop broader, more resilient technological portfolios than isolated search, with agents differentiating into exploration, construction, maintenance, and coordination roles as the world matures.

By Subhadeep Pal, Fiona Y. Wang, Markus J. Buehler
arXiv AI
Jul 31

Filesystem-Based Memory for LLM Agents: Organization, Evolution, and Sustainability

arXiv:2607. 26637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deployed LLM agents increasingly keep their long-term memory as a filesystem: a directory tree of markdown files that the agent itself reads, writes, and reorganizes through generic file tools.

By Sizhe Zhou, Sheldon Yu, Hui Wei, Junda Wu, Siru Ouyang, Yizhu Jiao, Shijia Pan, Julian McAuley, Yu Zhang, Tong Yu, Jiawei Han
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Emergent Language as an Approach to Conscious AI

arXiv:2606. 06380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The question of whether artificial systems can be conscious remains open, in part because existing approaches either evaluate systems against theory-derived checklists (discriminative) or engineer consciousness-inspired modules directly (architectural); both leave open whether observed structures are artifacts of human language priors.

By Zengqing Wu, Chuan Xiao