arXiv:2606.03137cs.AI2026-06中稿 · KDD被引 1

让智能体先思考再发言,揭示社会互动中内在评估与公开表达的关系。

Think-Before-Speak: From Internal Evaluation to Public Expression in Multi-Agent Social Simulation

论文配图:Think-Before-Speak: From Internal Evaluation to Public Expression in Multi-Agent Social Simulation
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  • 分时段设计内部思考与公开发言分离机制,追踪多智能体决策过程。
  • 沉默压力降低发言意愿,认知失调感则提升表达倾向。
  • 适用于研究群体讨论、舆论演化等需要解析心理机制的场景。

基于大语言模型的多智能体模拟为研究社会互动、协商过程与集体意见动态提供了新途径。然而,现有对话模拟框架主要关注可观察的发言轮次或聚合输出,难以捕捉智能体的内部评估过程、发言意图及公开表达之间的关系。本文提出TBS(Think-Before-Speak)——一种基于时间区间划分的多智能体模拟框架,将智能体的私有推理与公开话语生成相分离。在每个时间区间内,各智能体根据共享对话历史和自身记忆更新结构化内部状态,包括认知失调评估、感知意见气候、孤立风险感知、回应策略与发言意愿等。协调器随后解决竞争性发言意图,决定一条公开话语输出,实现内部评估与公共互动的同步演化。我们在一个气候政策议题的模拟市民大会场景中评估TBS,结果表明:TBS能生成连贯的内部状态轨迹,且该轨迹在发言分配规则、沉默条件与记忆设置下系统性变化;认知失调评估会增强发言意愿,而沉默压力评估则抑制之;一旦形成发言意图,公开表达主要受发言轮次规则影响。这些发现表明,TBS通过显式呈现从内部评估到公开表达的路径,支持机制敏感型社会模拟。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

LLM-based multi-agent simulation offers a promising way to study social interaction, deliberation, and collective opinion dynamics. However, many existing dialogue simulation frameworks represent interaction mainly as observable turn exchange or aggregated outputs, leaving the internal evaluative processes behind silence, speaking intention, and public expression difficult to examine. We introduce TBS (Think-Before-Speak), an interval-based multi-agent simulation framework that separates agents' private reasoning from public utterance generation. At each interval, all agents update structured internal states based on the shared dialogue history and their own memory. These states include dissonance-related appraisal, perceived opinion climate, perceived isolation risk, response strategy, and willingness to speak. The orchestrator then resolves competing speaking intentions and commits one utterance to the public dialogue, allowing internal evaluation and public interaction to co-evolve over time. We evaluate TBS in simulated town hall discussions on a climate-related policy issue. Results show that TBS produces coherent internal-state traces and that these traces vary systematically across turn-allocation, silence, and memory conditions. Dissonance-related appraisal increases agents' willingness to speak, whereas silence-pressure appraisal decreases it. Once speaking intention is formed, public expression is shaped mainly by turn-allocation rules. These findings suggest that TBS supports mechanism-sensitive social simulation by making the pathway from internal evaluation to public expression observable and analyzable.

多智能体社会模拟内部评估对话生成

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