arXiv:2606.05985cs.CLcs.CY2026-06

提出用价值多样性评估多文化智能体系统,发现现有系统远低于人类社会多样性。

Beyond Alignment: Value Diversity as a Collective Property in Multicultural Agent Systems

  • 以文化差异性为指标,从系统层面评估多文化智能体的价值多样性。
  • 19个文化、18个模型测试显示,多样性与对齐度几乎无关,且显著低于人类社会。
  • 社交互动加剧同质化,适合关注多文化系统公平性的研究者参考。

多文化多智能体系统在多元全球场景中日益普及,各智能体基于不同文化背景。现有文化评估聚焦单一智能体与目标文化的对齐程度,但对齐是单体属性,无法反映系统整体是否保持应有文化多样性。本文提出价值多样性作为系统级评估维度,通过共享价值观调查中文化条件智能体响应的差异性定义。基于世界价值观调查数据,评估了19种文化与18个基础模型在多种配置下的表现。结果表明:多样性与对齐度基本不相关,二者反映互补系统特性;当前多文化智能体系统在价值多样性上显著低于人类社会。混合模型系统虽缩小差距但未消除,且该差距在不同文化组合与智能体规模下持续存在。社交互动进一步削弱多样性,导致共识趋同;一个参与式预算案例显示,这种同质化压缩了集体决策的广度。研究确立价值多样性为独立评估维度,并揭示当前基于大模型的社会存在持续同质化倾向。代码与数据公开于https://github.com/iNLP-Lab/MultiAgent-Diversity。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Multicultural multi-agent systems are increasingly deployed in globally diverse settings, where different agents are grounded in different cultural backgrounds. Existing cultural evaluation focuses on value alignment: how closely a single agent matches a target culture. Yet alignment is a per-agent property and cannot reveal whether a system, taken as a whole, preserves the cultural plurality it is meant to represent. We propose value diversity as a system-level evaluation axis for multicultural agent systems, defined through the dissimilarity between culturally conditioned agents' responses on a shared value survey. Using the World Values Survey, we evaluate 19 cultures and 18 backbone models across a wide range of system configurations. We find that diversity is largely uncorrelated with alignment, indicating that the two capture complementary system properties, and that current multicultural agent systems fall substantially below human societies in value diversity. Mixed-backbone systems narrow this gap but do not close it, and the gap persists across culture compositions and agent scales. Social interaction further erodes diversity by driving agents toward consensus, and a participatory budgeting case study shows that this homogenization narrows the breadth of collective decision-making. Together, our results establish value diversity as a distinct evaluation axis for multicultural multi-agent systems and reveal a persistent homogenization tendency in current LLM-based societies. Our code and data are publicly available at https://github.com/iNLP-Lab/MultiAgent-Diversity.

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