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As foundation models are increasingly deployed as interacting agents in multi-agent systems, their collective behavior raises new challenges for trustworthiness, transparency, and accountability. Traditional coordination mechanisms, such as…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Brendan Gho , Suman Muppavarapu , Afnan Shaik , Tyson Tsay , Atharva Mohan , James Begin , Kevin Zhu , Archana Vaidheeswaran , Vasu Sharma

Current blockchain protocols (e.g., Proof-of-Work and Proof-of-Stake) secure the ledger yet cannot measure validator trustworthiness, allowing subtle misconduct that is especially damaging in decentralized-finance (DeFi) settings. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Ailiya Borjigin , Wei Zhou , Cong He

Multi-agent systems have demonstrated exceptional performance in downstream tasks beyond diverse single agent baselines. A growing body of work has explored ways to improve their reasoning and collaboration, from vote, debate, to complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yu Yao , Jiayi Dong , Yang Yang , Ju Li , Yilun Du

We improve the fundamental security threshold of eventual consensus Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchain protocols under the longest-chain rule by showing, for the first time, the positive effect of rounds with concurrent honest leaders. Current…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Aggelos Kiayias , Saad Quader , Alexander Russell

The Decentralized-Consistent-Scale (DCS) Triangle defines three dimensions that illustrate the tradeoffs of the blockchain consensus mechanism. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid consensus protocol, called Deterministic Proof of Work…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Zhuan Cheng , Gang Wu , Hao Wu , Muxing Zhao , Liang Zhao , Qingfeng Cai

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming human decision-making by acting as cognitive collaborators. Yet, this promise comes with a paradox: while LLMs can improve accuracy, they may also erode independent reasoning, promote…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Irdin Pekaric , Philipp Zech , Tom Mattson

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved significant advances in natural language processing, yet their potential for high-stake political decision-making remains largely unexplored. This paper addresses the gap by focusing on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Yueqing Liang , Liangwei Yang , Chen Wang , Congying Xia , Rui Meng , Xiongxiao Xu , Haoran Wang , Ali Payani , Kai Shu

We introduce two models of consensus following a majority rule on time-evolving stochastic block models (SBM), in which the network evolution is Markovian or non-Markovian. Under the majority rule, in each round, each agent simultaneously…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Haoyu Wang , Jiaheng Wei , Zhenyuan Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive moral reasoning abilities. Yet they often diverge when confronted with complex, multi-factor moral dilemmas. To address these discrepancies, we propose a framework that synthesizes multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Chenchen Yuan , Zheyu Zhang , Shuo Yang , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci

Language agents that interact with the world on their own have great potential for automating digital tasks. While large language model (LLM) agents have made progress in understanding and executing tasks such as textual games and webpage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Guande Wu , Chen Zhao , Claudio Silva , He He

A problem of developing the consensus protocols in public blockchain systems which spend a combination of energy and space resources is addressed. A technique is proposed that provides a flexibility for selection of the energy and space…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Miodrag J. Mihaljevic

Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly evolving and impacting various fields, necessitating the development of effective methods to evaluate and compare their performance. Most current approaches for performance evaluation are either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Behrad Moniri , Hamed Hassani , Edgar Dobriban

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown exceptional results on current benchmarks when working individually. The advancement in their capabilities, along with a reduction in parameter size and inference times, has facilitated the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Alfonso Amayuelas , Xianjun Yang , Antonis Antoniades , Wenyue Hua , Liangming Pan , William Wang

Given that Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) are plutocratic, and other common consensus protocols are mostly permission-based, we look for a consensus protocol that will suit the needs of e-Democracy. In particular, what we need…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Ouri Poupko , Nimrod Talmon

Consensus protocols play a pivotal role to balance security and efficiency in blockchain systems. In this paper, we propose an evaluation framework for blockchain consensus protocols termed as AlphaBlock. In this framework, we compare the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Haitao Xiang , Zhijie Ren , Ziheng Zhou , Ning Wang , Hanqing Jin

This study analyzes the application of code-generating Large Language Models in the creation of immutable Solidity smart contracts on the Ethereum Blockchain. Other works have previously analyzed Artificial Intelligence code generation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Siddhartha Chatterjee , Bina Ramamurthy

Blockchain and general purpose distributed ledgers are foundational technologies which bring significant innovation in the infrastructures and other underpinnings of our socio-economic systems. These P2P technologies are able to securely…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Claudio J. Tessone , Paolo Tasca , Flavio Iannelli

Most of the Blockchain permissioned systems employ Byzantine fault-tolerance (BFT) consensus protocols to ensure that honest validators agree on the order for appending entries to their ledgers. In this paper, we study the performance and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Salem Alqahtani , Murat Demirbas

Blockchain has been used in several domains. However, this technology still has major limitations that are largely related to one of its core components, namely the consensus protocol/algorithm. Several solutions have been proposed in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Qi Xiong , Nasrin Sohrabi , Hai Dong , Chenhao Xu , Zahir Tari

Consensus plays a crucial role in distributed ledger systems, impacting both scalability and decentralization. Many blockchain systems use a weighted lottery based on a scarce resource such as a stake, storage, memory, or computing power to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Grigorii Melnikov , Sebastian Müller , Nikita Polyanskii , Yury Yanovich