arXiv Computation and Language By Angana Borah, Zoha Hayat Bhatti, Zhijing Jin, Rada Mihalcea

CuriousTogether: Implications of Curiosity and Cultural Grounding in Multi-Agent LLM Interactions

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CuriousTogether is a framework that evaluates curiosity-driven interactions among multiple large language models (LLMs) across novelty-seeking, epistemic, and social curiosity dimensions. In eight tasks covering reasoning, creative generation, and social bias mitigation, curiosity-guided multi-agent settings outperform non-curious ones on seven of the eight tasks, achieving up to a 20.6% increase in story semantic diversity and a 14.9 percentage point drop in stereotype rates. The study also shows that country-conditioned cultural grounding can improve story generation and social tasks, though it may reduce precision in reasoning, and that inference-time curiosity-based multi-agent approaches offer better quality-token trade-offs compared to single-agent baselines.

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