3 papers
cs.MA2025
The Subtle Art of Defection: Understanding Uncooperative Behaviors in LLM based Multi-Agent Systems
Devang Kulshreshtha, Wanyu Du, Raghav Jain +4
This paper introduces a novel framework for simulating and analyzing how uncooperative behaviors can destabilize or collapse LLM-based multi-agent systems. Our framework includes t…
cs.AI2025
Cross-Modal Content Optimization for Steering Web Agent Preferences
Tanqiu Jiang, Min Bai, Nikolaos Pappas +2
Vision-language model (VLM)-based web agents increasingly power high-stakes selection tasks like content recommendation or product ranking by combining multimodal perception with p…
cs.CL2025
Peacemaker or Troublemaker: How Sycophancy Shapes Multi-Agent Debate
Binwei Yao, Chao Shang, Wanyu Du +6
Large language models (LLMs) often display sycophancy, a tendency toward excessive agreeability. This behavior poses significant challenges for multi-agent debating systems (MADS)…