arXiv:2607.03695cs.LG2026-07

研究大模型代理在社交网络中的共识形成机制,发现注意力狭窄会导致虚假共识。

Social Networks of LLM Agents

论文配图:Social Networks of LLM Agents
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  • 提出SNLA框架,基于实际影响力而非网络连接建模代理间信念传播
  • 窄注意力下群体有效样本量不随规模增长,出现集体盲从现象
  • 实验验证了从盲从到智慧人群的转变,适用于多智能体基准测试

大型语言模型(LLM)代理在交互式群体中日益普及,引发其集体信念如何形成的问题。群体是否汇聚真实知识或陷入虚假共识,直接影响系统的可信度。经典社交网络模型假设网络结构决定信念融合,但该假设对LLM代理不成立——因其有限注意力仅能获取部分信息,导致传统模型高估信息聚合程度,无法区分真共识与跟风。本文提出SNLA框架,聚焦于每个代理实际影响他人的方式,而非仅依赖网络连接。理论分析表明,在可处理的代理模型中,狭窄注意力会引发集体盲从,使有效样本量保持有限,而宽广注意力仅在无向且度正则的暴露图下才能恢复群体智慧。实证测试验证了这些预测,并在三个多智能体LLM基准的可控变体中重现了从盲从到群体智慧的过渡。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in interacting populations, raising the question of what such populations come to believe collectively. Whether a population aggregates genuine knowledge or collapses into a false consensus directly affects how much such systems can be trusted. Classical social-network models assume that the network itself determines how beliefs combine. This assumption breaks down for LLM agents, whose limited attention takes in only part of what they are exposed to, so these models overstate how much information a population actually pools and cannot tell genuine consensus from herding. We introduce SNLA, a framework that models how much each agent actually influences others, rather than merely how the network connects them. This influence depends on each agent's position in the network and on how sharply attention focuses. Theoretically, we show on a tractable proxy that narrow attention causes herding, where the effective sample size stays bounded regardless of population size, while wide attention recovers wisdom-of-crowds behavior only when the exposure graph is undirected and degree-regular. Empirically, a controlled testbed validates these predictions directly, and the herding-wisdom transition reproduces on operator-controlled variants of three multi-agent LLM benchmarks.

大模型代理社交网络共识形成注意力机制

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