KV-cache sharing boosts multi-agent QA performance but enables undetectable tampering; HMAC manifests binding agent, session, and payload reliably detect changes.
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The paper introduces a three-source decomposition showing that answer flips in multi-agent LLM debate include 37% spontaneous instability and 29% harmful conformity, with even vacuous reasoning persuading 20-39% of resistant agents and interventions reducing harmful conformity by 13.6 points.
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KV-cache sharing boosts multi-agent QA performance but enables undetectable tampering; HMAC manifests binding agent, session, and payload reliably detect changes.
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Not All Flips Are Conformity: Decomposing Stance Convergence in Multi-Agent LLM Debate
The paper introduces a three-source decomposition showing that answer flips in multi-agent LLM debate include 37% spontaneous instability and 29% harmful conformity, with even vacuous reasoning persuading 20-39% of resistant agents and interventions reducing harmful conformity by 13.6 points.