arXiv AI By Tathagata Banerjee, Nima Moghaddas

Coherence-Driven Belief Formation and Population Dynamics of Contagion in LLM Agents

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The paper studies how language‑model agents adopt beliefs, measuring the probability that an agent accepts a claim based on the number of peers endorsing it. The adoption curve is sigmoid, indicating complex contagion, with a threshold influenced by the claim’s plausibility, the source’s reliability, and the agent’s disposition—dimensions that can be collapsed into a single coherence metric relative to the agent’s prior beliefs. In networks of AI agents, belief spread is stronger on clustered than random networks, and the system shows a bifurcating cascade window and hysteretic consensus that makes consensus difficult to reverse once formed.

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