arXiv:2604.27691cs.AI2026-04

用历史政治制度设计多智能体系统,发现组织方式决定集体智商高低

When Agents Evolve, Institutions Follow

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  • 将七种历史治理模式转化为可运行的多智能体架构
  • 同一模型下最佳与最差制度性能差距超57个百分点
  • 适合研究群体智能、AI组织设计的学者与工程师

数千年来,复杂社会始终面临如何在认知有限、信息不全的个体间协调集体行动的问题。不同文明发展出各异的政治制度来回答谁提议、谁评审、谁执行及错误如何纠正等核心问题。我们提出,基于大语言模型的多智能体系统同样面临这一挑战,其核心问题不仅是个体智能,更是集体组织。历史制度为多智能体架构提供了结构化的设计空间,可在效率与纠错、集中与分散、专精与冗余之间进行可验证的权衡。我们将四种典型治理模式下的七种历史制度转化为可执行的多智能体架构,在三个大语言模型和两个基准上进行统一评估。结果表明,治理拓扑显著影响集体表现:单模型内最优与最劣制度性能差距超过57个百分点,且最优架构随模型能力与任务特征系统性变化。这表明,集体智能的进步不依赖单一最优组织形式,而在于能随任务与能力演化而动态重选、重构的治理机制。更广泛而言,这预示着从‘自进化智能体’向‘自进化多智能体系统’的转变。代码已开源。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Across millennia, complex societies have faced the same coordination problem of how to organize collective action among cognitively bounded and informationally incomplete individuals. Different civilizations developed different political institutions to answer the same basic questions of who proposes, who reviews, who executes, and how errors are corrected. We argue that multi-agent systems built on large language models face the same challenge. Their central problem is not only individual intelligence, but collective organization. Historical institutions therefore provide a structured design space for multi-agent architectures, making key trade-offs between efficiency and error correction, centralization and distribution, and specialization and redundancy empirically testable. We translate seven historical political institutions, spanning four canonical governance patterns, into executable multi-agent architectures and evaluate them under identical conditions across three large language models and two benchmarks. We find that governance topology strongly shapes collective performance. Within a single model, the gap between the best and worst institution exceeds 57 percentage points, while the optimal architecture shifts systematically with model capability and task characteristics. These results suggest that collective intelligence will not advance through a single optimal organizational form, but through governance mechanisms that can be reselected and reconfigured as tasks and capabilities evolve. More broadly, this points to a transition from \textbf{self-evolving agents} to the \textbf{self-evolving multi-agent system}. The code is available on \href{https://github.com/cf3i/SocialSystemArena}{GitHub}.

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