arXiv:2604.02674cs.MAcs.AI2026-04被引 1

发现大模型群体协作中存在智力精英与极端事件,揭示其背后的结构瓶颈。

Do Agent Societies Develop Intellectual Elites? The Hidden Power Laws of Collective Cognition in LLM Multi-Agent Systems

  • 将协作建模为事件级连锁反应,发现重尾传播规律。
  • 系统越大越易形成少数主导的智力精英,极端事件频发。
  • 提出新机制DTI,在失衡时增强整合,提升性能且不抑制规模推理。

大型语言模型多智能体系统日益作为交互式社会部署,但扩展时常带来回报递减或不稳定,原因尚不明确。本文首次开展大规模实证研究,提出基于原子事件级别的协作动态建模,将推理重构为协作级联。分析超过150万次跨任务、拓扑和规模的交互后,揭示三个耦合规律:协作呈现重尾级联,通过优先连接集中为智力精英,并随系统规模扩大产生更频繁的极端事件。我们证明这些效应由单一结构性机制驱动:整合瓶颈——协调扩展随系统规模增长,而整合固化却未同步,导致大规模但弱整合的推理过程。为验证该机制,引入缺陷触发整合(DTI),在失衡时选择性提升整合度。DTI在协作失效处显著提升性能,且不抑制大规模推理。结果确立了集体认知的量化规律,将协作结构定位为理解与改进可扩展多智能体智能的关键、此前未被量化的维度。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large Language Model (LLM) multi-agent systems are increasingly deployed as interacting agent societies, yet scaling these systems often yields diminishing or unstable returns, the causes of which remain poorly understood. We present the first large-scale empirical study of coordination dynamics in LLM-based multi-agent systems, introducing an atomic event-level formulation that reconstructs reasoning as cascades of coordination. Analyzing over 1.5 Million interactions across tasks, topologies, and scales, we uncover three coupled laws: coordination follows heavy-tailed cascades, concentrates via preferential attachment into intellectual elites, and produces increasingly frequent extreme events as system size grows. We show that these effects are coupled through a single structural mechanism: an integration bottleneck, in which coordination expansion scales with system size while consolidation does not, producing large but weakly integrated reasoning processes. To test this mechanism, we introduce Deficit-Triggered Integration (DTI), which selectively increases integration under imbalance. DTI improves performance precisely where coordination fails, without suppressing large-scale reasoning. Together, our results establish quantitative laws of collective cognition and identify coordination structure as a fundamental, previously unmeasured axis for understanding and improving scalable multi-agent intelligence.

多智能体集体认知协作机制大模型

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