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arxiv: 2605.15343 · v1 · pith:CZU3WWQDnew · submitted 2026-05-14 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.LG· cs.MA

Belief Engine: Configurable and Inspectable Stance Dynamics in Multi-Agent LLM Deliberation

Joshua C. Yang , Maurice Flechtner , Damian Dailisan , Michiel A. Bakker This is my paper

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keywords belief enginestance dynamicsLLM deliberationargument extractionlog-odds updateevidence uptakeanchoringmulti-agent simulation
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The Belief Engine makes stance changes in LLM deliberation auditable by extracting arguments and updating beliefs through a log-odds rule controlled by evidence uptake and prior anchoring.

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This paper introduces the Belief Engine as an auditable layer for modeling belief as an evidential state that appears as scalar stance in multi-agent LLM systems. It pulls arguments from deliberation transcripts into structured memory and applies a log-odds update whose behavior is set by two parameters: how readily new evidence is incorporated and how strongly prior beliefs resist change. Across base models, sweeps of these parameters produce consistent, inspectable shifts in stance while keeping an evidence trail visible. On the DEBATE dataset of human pre- and post-deliberation opinions, the engine reconstructs final stances most accurately when those stances track the extracted evidence; stable or opposing cases instead indicate anchoring or influences outside the transcript. A reader would care because the approach replaces opaque prompt effects with explicit, tunable assumptions about openness, commitment, and convergence.

Core claim

The Belief Engine treats belief as an evidential state over a proposition, exposes it as scalar stance, extracts arguments into structured memory, and updates stance with a log-odds rule controlled by evidence uptake u and prior anchoring a. Parameter sweeps across multiple base LLMs show these controls reliably shape stance dynamics while preserving an evidence-level update trail. On the DEBATE dataset, the model best reconstructs participants whose final stance follows extracted evidence, whereas stable and evidence-opposed cases point to anchoring or factors outside the extracted evidence stream.

What carries the argument

The Belief Engine, which extracts arguments from deliberation transcripts into structured memory and updates scalar stance via a log-odds rule whose rate is set by evidence uptake and prior anchoring parameters.

If this is right

  • Stance dynamics in LLM agents become reliably controllable by tuning evidence uptake and anchoring while an evidence trail remains inspectable.
  • Reconstruction accuracy is highest for participants whose final stances align with arguments extracted from the transcript.
  • Stable stances or those opposing extracted evidence indicate that prior anchoring is the dominant influence.
  • Concepts such as openness, commitment, convergence, and disagreement can be linked directly to explicit update assumptions rather than hidden prompt effects.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same extraction-plus-log-odds structure could be used to compare convergence rates across different anchoring strengths in simulated negotiations.
  • Mismatch cases on real human data could help isolate non-evidential influences such as social echoing or role drift that the current evidence stream misses.
  • Inspectable update trails may make it easier to debug when LLM agents drift from evidence toward prompt-driven repetition over long exchanges.

Load-bearing premise

That extracting arguments and updating via a log-odds rule balancing evidence uptake against prior anchoring sufficiently captures the main drivers of stance change in both LLM agents and human participants on the DEBATE dataset.

What would settle it

On the DEBATE dataset, measure how closely the Belief Engine's reconstructed stances match actual pre-to-post opinion shifts when evidence is present but participants remain stable; if anchoring parameters cannot close the gap, the model fails to account for the discrepancy.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.15343 by Damian Dailisan, Joshua C. Yang, Maurice Flechtner, Michiel A. Bakker.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Belief Engine architecture. Incoming messages are extracted into structured arguments, judged, and stored as active evidence or archived records. Active evidence updates the maintained belief state through evidence uptake and prior anchoring; responses are generated from the resulting stance plus retrieved memory and recent dialogue context. memory before they enter this update. Language generation is cond… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Parameter control and profile dynamics. Stance S ∈ [−1, 1], where +1 means affirmative/pro with respect to the proposition and −1 means negative/con. Left: BE single-agent sweeps across three base LLMs, varying evidence uptake u (a = 0.70) and prior anchoring a (u = 0.4). Right: GPT-5.4-mini two-agent profile debates with Open-minded (u, a) = (0.40, 0.20) and Stubborn (0.10, 0.80) agents. Thin lines show t… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Prompt-baseline comparison on 15-round atheism de￾bates. BE variants use fixed (u, a) = (0.2, 0.4) and expose in￾ternal stance; prompt self-update and RAG plus self-update use external-judge scores on the same [−1, 1] scale. 0.22 (Qwen), and 0.07 (Gemma), each traceable to active evidence under the shared profile. The GPT-5.4-mini prompt self-update and RAG plus self￾update baselines also move in the exter… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: DEBATE replay calibration surfaces. Each heatmap sweeps evidence uptake u and prior anchoring a for one participant subset. Cells show held-out RMSE above that panel’s best cell; lower is better. Star sign marks the optimum, and the printed RMSE is the absolute error at that optimum [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Single-participant DEBATE replay examples. Each panel samples one participant from a diagnostic subset and applies that subset’s calibrated (u, a) profile, shown above the panel. The x-axis counts accepted received-evidence updates rather than debate rounds. Starting from the observed human initial stance, the teal curve shows the BE replay after each accepted evidence item. Markers indicate whether the ex… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

LLM-based agents are increasingly used to simulate deliberative interactions such as negotiation, conflict resolution, and multi-turn opinion exchange. Yet generated transcripts often do not reveal why an agent's stance changes: movement may reflect evidence uptake, anchoring, role drift, echoing, or changed prompt and retrieval context. We introduce the Belief Engine (BE), an auditable belief-update layer that treats "belief" as an evidential state over a proposition and exposes it as scalar stance. BE extracts arguments into structured memory and updates stance with a log-odds rule controlled by evidence uptake u and prior anchoring a. Across multiple base LLMs, parameter sweeps show that these controls reliably shape stance dynamics while preserving an evidence-level update trail. On DEBATE, a human deliberation dataset with pre/post opinions, BE best reconstructs participants whose final stance follows extracted evidence; stable and evidence-opposed cases instead point to anchoring or factors outside the extracted evidence stream. BE provides configurable infrastructure for studying evidence-grounded deliberation, where openness, commitment, convergence, and disagreement can be tied to explicit update assumptions rather than hidden prompt effects.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces the Belief Engine (BE), an auditable belief-update layer for LLM-based agents in multi-agent deliberation. BE extracts arguments from transcripts into structured memory and updates a scalar stance via a log-odds rule governed by two configurable parameters: evidence uptake u and prior anchoring a. Parameter sweeps across base LLMs demonstrate that these controls reliably shape stance dynamics while preserving an evidence trail. On the DEBATE human deliberation dataset (pre/post opinions), BE achieves best reconstruction for participants whose final stance aligns with extracted evidence; stable and evidence-opposed cases are attributed to anchoring or external factors.

Significance. If the reconstruction results and parameter controllability hold under rigorous validation, the work provides useful infrastructure for making LLM deliberation more inspectable and evidence-grounded. It allows stance changes to be tied to explicit update assumptions rather than hidden prompt effects, which could support studies of convergence, disagreement, and anchoring in simulated deliberation.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (DEBATE reconstruction): The manuscript reports that BE 'best reconstructs' participants whose final stance follows extracted evidence, yet provides no details on the fitting objective for u and a (e.g., likelihood, exact-match error, or thresholded delta), the optimization procedure, search ranges, or any regularization. Without these, the separation between evidence-following and anchored cases cannot be distinguished from the flexibility of a two-parameter log-odds model that can approximate arbitrary stance deltas.
  2. [§3.2] §3.2 (log-odds update rule): The claim that the update is 'parameter-free' in its evidence-level trail is undercut by the dependence on fitted u and a; the paper should clarify whether reconstruction success is measured against a null model (fixed u=0 or a=1) or a single-parameter baseline to establish that the two-parameter form adds diagnostic power beyond flexibility.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract mentions 'parameter sweeps across base LLMs' but does not report the specific LLMs, number of runs, or error bars; these should be added for reproducibility.
  2. [§3] Notation for the log-odds update (Eq. likely in §3) should explicitly define how extracted arguments are mapped to evidence increments before the u/a scaling.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive report. The comments highlight important gaps in the presentation of our fitting procedure and the interpretation of the 'parameter-free' claim. We address each point below and commit to revisions that strengthen the manuscript without altering its core claims.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (DEBATE reconstruction): The manuscript reports that BE 'best reconstructs' participants whose final stance follows extracted evidence, yet provides no details on the fitting objective for u and a (e.g., likelihood, exact-match error, or thresholded delta), the optimization procedure, search ranges, or any regularization. Without these, the separation between evidence-following and anchored cases cannot be distinguished from the flexibility of a two-parameter log-odds model that can approximate arbitrary stance deltas.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript does not currently specify the fitting objective, optimization procedure, search ranges, or regularization used to select u and a for the DEBATE reconstruction. This omission makes it difficult to evaluate whether the reported separation reflects genuine diagnostic power or simply the flexibility of a two-parameter model. We will add a new subsection in §4 that details the procedure: a grid search over u ∈ [0, 2] and a ∈ [0, 1] minimizing absolute stance prediction error, with explicit comparison to a null model (u = 0, no update) and a single-parameter baseline (a fixed at 0.5). These additions will allow readers to assess whether the two-parameter form provides explanatory value beyond flexibility for evidence-aligned participants. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (log-odds update rule): The claim that the update is 'parameter-free' in its evidence-level trail is undercut by the dependence on fitted u and a; the paper should clarify whether reconstruction success is measured against a null model (fixed u=0 or a=1) or a single-parameter baseline to establish that the two-parameter form adds diagnostic power beyond flexibility.

    Authors: The phrase 'parameter-free' in §3.2 was intended to refer exclusively to the evidence extraction and logging step, which records structured arguments independently of the numerical values chosen for u and a. The parameters affect only the magnitude of the stance update, not the content or presence of the evidence trail itself. We acknowledge that this distinction is not stated clearly enough. We will revise the wording in §3.2 to emphasize that the inspectable evidence trail remains available regardless of parameter settings. In addition, the baseline comparisons described in our response to the first comment will be included in the DEBATE analysis to demonstrate that the two-parameter model improves reconstruction specifically where evidence alignment is observed. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper introduces the Belief Engine as a configurable, auditable layer that extracts arguments and applies a log-odds stance update controlled by explicit parameters u (uptake) and a (anchoring). It then evaluates reconstruction performance on the independent external DEBATE dataset containing pre/post human opinions. The central result—that BE best reconstructs participants whose final stance aligns with extracted evidence while stable or opposed cases indicate anchoring—is obtained by applying the model to this separate data source rather than by any self-referential fit, self-citation chain, or definitional equivalence. No equation or claim reduces the reported distinction to the inputs by construction; the parameters are presented as tunable controls whose effects are demonstrated via sweeps, not as quantities optimized to force the classification outcome. The derivation therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 1 invented entities

The central claim rests on two tunable parameters and domain assumptions about representing beliefs as scalar stances and using log-odds for updates; no new physical entities are postulated.

free parameters (2)
  • evidence uptake u
    Controls the weight given to new evidence in the log-odds stance update rule.
  • prior anchoring a
    Controls the weight given to the agent's existing stance in the log-odds update rule.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Belief can be represented as a scalar stance over a proposition
    Stated in the abstract as the basis for treating stance as an evidential state.
  • domain assumption Log-odds rule is a suitable update mechanism for stance based on extracted evidence
    Used to implement the configurable belief update.
invented entities (1)
  • Belief Engine no independent evidence
    purpose: Auditable belief-update layer that exposes stance dynamics
    New component introduced to make deliberation inspectable.

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