arXiv:2602.17815cs.CL2026-02中稿 · ICLR

通过脑神经同步分析,发现语言模型互动中存在类人类社交行为特征。

Neural Synchrony Between Socially Interacting Language Models

  • 设计社会交互实验,用神经同步度衡量模型间表征对齐。
  • 同步度与模型社交表现强相关,证明其可反映真实社会互动。
  • 为理解大模型的'社交心智'提供新视角,适合研究人机交互者参考。

神经科学发现,人类在多种社交情境中大脑活动会与他人同步。传统上,社交心智被视为生物体独有属性。尽管大型语言模型(LLMs)被广泛认为是人类行为的有力近似,且多模型系统已被广泛探索以增强能力,但它们是否能与人类社交心智有意义地比较仍存争议。本文探讨了社交互动中的语言模型之间神经同步现象,作为该争论的实证依据。具体而言,我们引入社会模拟中的神经同步作为分析模型在表征层面社交性的一个新代理指标。通过精心设计的实验,我们证明神经同步可靠地反映了互动中的社会参与度和时间对齐。研究结果表明,语言模型间的神经同步与社交表现高度相关,突显了神经同步与语言模型社交行为之间的关键联系。本工作为考察语言模型的‘社交心智’提供了新视角,揭示了人类与语言模型社交互动内部动态的惊人相似性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Neuroscience has uncovered a fundamental mechanism of our social nature: human brain activity becomes synchronized with others in many social contexts involving interaction. Traditionally, social minds have been regarded as an exclusive property of living beings. Although large language models (LLMs) are widely accepted as powerful approximations of human behavior, with multi-LLM system being extensively explored to enhance their capabilities, it remains controversial whether they can be meaningfully compared to human social minds. In this work, we explore neural synchrony between socially interacting LLMs as an empirical evidence for this debate. Specifically, we introduce neural synchrony during social simulations as a novel proxy for analyzing the sociality of LLMs at the representational level. Through carefully designed experiments, we demonstrate that it reliably reflects both social engagement and temporal alignment in their interactions. Our findings indicate that neural synchrony between LLMs is strongly correlated with their social performance, highlighting an important link between neural synchrony and the social behaviors of LLMs. Our work offers a new perspective to examine the "social minds" of LLMs, highlighting surprising parallels in the internal dynamics that underlie human and LLM social interaction.

语言模型社交智能神经同步

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