arXiv:2608.14707cs.AI2026-08

用语义不确定性指导智能体协作,提升复杂任务中的可靠性。

Semantic Uncertainty-Guided Orchestration in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems

论文配图:Semantic Uncertainty-Guided Orchestration in Hierarchical Multi-Agent Systems
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  • 通过语义熵和密度衡量推理可信度,动态调整协作策略。
  • 在StrategyQA等数据集上显著降低幻觉率,准确率提升12%-18%。
  • 不依赖特定模型架构,适合各类层级化智能体系统使用。

随着基于大语言模型的多智能体系统能力增强,如何在不确定环境下协调智能体成为关键挑战。现有方法通常依赖固定交互模式,缺乏对中间推理步骤可靠性的评估机制,导致错误和幻觉传播。本文提出一种语义不确定性引导的协调框架HASSUM,通过语义熵和语义密度量化答案层面的信任度,而非输出概率。该信号支持自适应决策,包括结果验证、选择性重提示、额外讨论与置信度感知响应选择。该方法独立于具体智能体架构,可集成至多种层级化协作系统。在策略问答(StrategyQA)、越狱检测(JailbreakBench)和真实问答(TruthfulQA)上的实验表明,语义不确定性引导的协调在复杂推理任务中显著优于传统方法。语义熵与密度联合使用效果优于单一指标。消融实验显示阈值和模型规模均影响语义度量的有效性。结果表明,语义不确定性是提升代理型AI系统鲁棒性与可信度的通用有效信号。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

As large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems become increasingly capable, coordinating agents under uncertainty becomes a fundamental challenge. Existing orchestration strategies typically rely on fixed interaction patterns and often lack mechanisms for assessing the reliability of intermediate reasoning steps, allowing errors and hallucinations to propagate through the system. This paper introduces a semantic-uncertainty-guided orchestration approach, HASSUM as a general framework for uncertainty-aware coordination in multi-agent systems. The method estimates uncertainty using semantic entropy and semantic density, which measure trust at the level of answer semantics rather than output probabilities. These signals enable adaptive orchestration decisions, including output verification, selective reprompting, additional deliberation, and confidence-aware response selection. Because the approach operates independently of any particular agent architecture, it can be integrated into a broad range of hierarchical and collaborative multi-agent systems. The evaluations demonstrate an implementation within a hierarchical agent framework and evaluate it on StrategyQA, JailbreakBench, and TruthfulQA benchmarks. Across tasks that require complex reasoning and are prone to ambiguity or hallucinations, uncertainty-guided orchestration yields more reliable outcomes than uncertainty-unaware coordination. Semantic entropy and semantic density in tandem outperformed either metric alone. Ablations testing different thresholds and model sizes demonstrated that both influence the effectiveness of semantic metrics. The results suggest that semantic uncertainty is a practical and general-purpose signal for improving robustness and trustworthiness in agentic AI systems.

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