arXiv Machine Learning

BOUNDARY_SYNC: Measuring Communication-Induced Representational Coupling in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

arXiv:2607. 01600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are deployed as communicating agents, does inter-agent communication cause outputs to converge?

arXiv AI
Sep 24

Toward Measuring Structural Drift in LLM Communication Loops

The paper introduces a new way to detect drift in stateful language‑model pipelines by treating the sequence of prompt, response, and next prompt as a single unit of analysis. It defines two metrics—communication closure and normalized conditional action contribution—to quantify how well a response aligns with the subsequent prompt and how much it resolves the next reply. Experiments on over 2,200 dialogues show that swapping a response drastically reduces measured contribution, indicating that drift can be detected without labels or predefined rules.

By Wael Hafez, Amir Nazeri, Chenan Wei
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

Do Latent Channels Actually Communicate? A Causal Audit of Latent Multi-Agent LLM

Latent communication in large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems (MAS) transmits continuous internal representations instead of text, but greater representational capacity does not establish that the receiver uses task-relevant information. End-task performance alone also cannot reveal whether an observed effect depends on message presence, content generated for the evaluated example, or information supplied by a separate agent.