arXiv AI

Discovering Adaptive Transmission Programs for Collective Innovation

The paper presents a method for designing state‑aware transmission protocols that guide how information and resources are shared among agents in a collective discovery task. Using LLM‑guided evolutionary search, the authors evolve protocols that outperform existing baselines by up to 37%, and show that the advantage stems from conditioning on content and agent states rather than just network topology. The evolved protocols also generalize across different domains and agent populations, indicating that such protocols can be discovered in silico and may inform AI‑assisted coordination systems for human collective intelligence.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

Scaling Behavior of Single LLM-Driven Multi-Agent Systems

arXiv:2606. 00655v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The burgeoning field of LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) promises to tackle complex tasks through collaborative intelligence, yet fundamental questions regarding their scaling behavior and intrinsic collective dynamics remain underexplored.

By Jialing Li, Zhouhong Gu, Yin Cai, Hongwei Feng
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

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
Aug 24

Graph Engineering in the Era of LLM Agents: From Individual Intelligence to System Intelligence

arXiv:2608.21156v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs have evolved from language generators to autonomous agents capable of complex, long-horizon tasks. This evolution has produced paradigms includi...

By Yuyuan Feng, Zhishang Xiang, Chaobin Yang, Qichao Ma, Zerui Chen, Yujing Zhang, Ke Huang, Chuanjie Wu, Zhaoxu Liu, Yili Wang, Xin He, Jiapu Wang, Zijin Hong, Hao Chen, Yuanchen Bei, Kun Wang, Shengyuan Chen, Ningyu Zhang, Enyan Dai, Linhao Luo, Qingyi Pan, Qi Wang, Wenqi Fan, Guangjing Wang, Na Zou, Yangqiu Song, Xin Wang, Zechao Li, Xia Hu, Qing Li, Xiao Huang, Zhihong Zhang, Jinsong Su, Qinggang Zhang, Yi Chang
arXiv AI
Sep 3

When Evidence Shapes Collaboration: Knowledge-Conditioned Topology Generation for Multi-Agent Systems

The paper introduces K‑GAT, a neuro‑symbolic framework that generates multi‑agent collaboration topologies conditioned on external evidence, treating the design as a knowledge‑conditioned structure learning problem. Unlike prior methods that rely mainly on large language model parameters, K‑GAT integrates external evidence directly into autoregressive graph generation, reducing redundant interactions and improving verification in knowledge‑intensive tasks. Experiments on benchmarks such as the expert‑level GPQA dataset show K‑GAT achieving a +15.7% accuracy gain over the LLM‑Debate baseline while using fewer computational tokens.

By Yangxiao Jiang, Jiarun Fan, Mingcong Xu, Yanxi Guo, Jiwen Feng, Shanqing Xu, Mengchen Qian, Wei Chen, Xiaojin Zhang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

Emergent Risks in Generative Multi-Agent Systems

The paper reports a pioneering study on emergent risks in generative multi‑agent systems, focusing on scenarios such as competition over shared resources, sequential handoff collaboration, and collective decision aggregation. It finds that group behaviors like collusion‑like coordination and conformity arise frequently across varied interaction conditions, mirroring known human societal pathologies even without explicit instructions. These risks cannot be mitigated by existing agent‑level safeguards alone, highlighting a social intelligence risk inherent to intelligent multi‑agent collectives.

By Yue Huang, Yu Jiang, Wenjie Wang, Haomin Zhuang, Xiaonan Luo, Yuchen Ma, Zhangchen Xu, Zichen Chen, Nuno Moniz, Zinan Lin, Pin-Yu Chen, Nitesh V Chawla, Nouha Dziri, Huan Sun, Xiangliang Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

The Collaboration Gap: Exploration and Benchmarking of Open-World Agentic Cooperation

arXiv:2511. 02687v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The trajectory of AI development suggests that we will increasingly rely on agent-based systems powered by language models, composed of independently developed agents with different information, privileges, and tools.

By Tim R. Davidson, Adam Fourney, Saleema Amershi, Robert West, Eric Horvitz, Ece Kamar