arXiv Computation and Language By Adi Simhi, Yaniv Nikankin, Jonathan Herzig, Idan Szpektor, Yonatan Belinkov, Shay B. Cohen

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Emergent Agreement from Individual Conversations

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The paper investigates how large language model (LLM) agents converge toward agreement during multi‑turn conversations about subjective topics. By training a linear classifier on conversation activations, the authors uncover an internal representation of agreement that varies across turns and does not reliably match external agreement at the individual conversation level. Aggregating this internal agreement across conversations reveals a Markovian structure: external agreement at each turn depends directly on the previous turn, and internal agreement couples to external agreement via a power‑law mapping, with models often expressing external agreement before their internal representations shift.

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