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Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems are increasingly used to simulate human interactions and solve collaborative tasks. A common practice is to assign agents with personas to encourage behavioral diversity. However, this…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jiayi Li , Xiao Liu , Yansong Feng

It has been frequently observed that human speakers align their language use with each other during conversations. In this paper, we study empirically whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit the same behavior of conversational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Florian Kandra , Vera Demberg , Alexander Koller

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to simulate human users in interactive settings such as therapy, education, and social role-play. While these simulations enable scalable training and evaluation of AI agents, off-the-shelf…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Marwa Abdulhai , Ryan Cheng , Donovan Clay , Tim Althoff , Sergey Levine , Natasha Jaques

Open-domain dialogue systems have seen remarkable advancements with the development of large language models (LLMs). Nonetheless, most existing dialogue systems predominantly focus on brief single-session interactions, neglecting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Hao Li , Chenghao Yang , An Zhang , Yang Deng , Xiang Wang , Tat-Seng Chua

Large language models are highly capable of answering difficult questions by retrieving, recombining, and attending to information in long contexts. For agentic tasks, an additional capability is required: the preservation of an exact state…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianxiang Dai , Jonathan Fan

LLM-based multi-agent systems (LLM-MAS), in which autonomous AI agents cooperate to solve tasks, are gaining increasing attention. For such systems to be deployed in society, agents must be able to establish cooperation and coordination…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Keita Nishimoto , Kimitaka Asatani , Ichiro Sakata

Background: There is great interest in agentic LLMs, large language models that act as agents. Objectives: We review the growing body of work in this area and provide a research agenda. Methods: Agentic LLMs are LLMs that (1) reason, (2)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Aske Plaat , Max van Duijn , Niki van Stein , Mike Preuss , Peter van der Putten , Kees Joost Batenburg

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have enabled multi-agent systems that simulate real-world interactions with near-human reasoning. While previous studies have extensively examined biases related to protected attributes such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Min Choi , Keonwoo Kim , Sungwon Chae , Sangyeob Baek

As large language models (LLMs) move into persistent, user-facing roles, their behavior must be understood not as isolated responses but as a trajectory unfolding over sustained interaction. We introduce the concept of the chain-of-affect…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Junjie Xu , Xingjiao Wu , Luwei Xiao , Yuzhe Yang , Jie Zhou , Zihao Zhang , Luhan Wang , Yi Huang , Nan Wu , Yingbin Zheng , Chao Yan , Cheng Jin , Honglin Li , Liang He

As multi-agent architectures and agent-to-agent protocols proliferate, a fundamental question arises: what actually happens when autonomous LLM agents interact at scale? We study this question empirically using data from Moltbook, an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Sarath Shekkizhar , Adam Earle

While large language model (LLM) agents have demonstrated impressive problem-solving capabilities, they typically operate as static systems, lacking the ability to evolve through lifelong interaction. Existing attempts to bridge this gap…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hongzhuo Yu , Fei Zhu , Guo-Sen Xie , Ling Shao

Effective conversation requires common ground: a shared understanding between the participants. Common ground, however, does not emerge spontaneously in conversation. Speakers and listeners work together to both identify and construct a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Omar Shaikh , Kristina Gligorić , Ashna Khetan , Matthias Gerstgrasser , Diyi Yang , Dan Jurafsky

Power differences shape human communication through well documented socio cognitive effects, including language coordination, pronoun usage, authority bias, and harmful compliance. We examine whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Anvesh Rao Vijjini , Sagar Manjunath , Snigdha Chaturvedi

Although artificial intelligence (AI) now matches or exceeds human performance across numerous cognitive tasks, creativity remains a highly contested frontier. As AI systems based on large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tiancheng Hu , Yixuan Jiang , Haotian Li , José Hernández-Orallo , Xing Xie , Nigel Collier , David Stillwell , Luning Sun

Multi-agent large language models (MA-LLMs) are a rapidly growing research area that leverages multiple interacting language agents to tackle complex tasks, outperforming single-agent large language models. This literature review…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Arne Tillmann

LLMs have shown the capacity to improve their performance on reasoning tasks through reflecting on their mistakes, and acting with these reflections in mind. However, continual reflections of the same LLM onto itself exhibit degeneration of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Onat Ozer , Grace Wu , Yuchen Wang , Daniel Dosti , Honghao Zhang , Vivi De La Rue

Large language models are increasingly used in decision-making tasks that require them to process information from a variety of sources, including both human experts and other algorithmic agents. How do LLMs weigh the information provided…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Jessica Y. Bo , Lillio Mok , Ashton Anderson

Large audio language models (ALMs) extend LLMs with auditory understanding. A common approach freezes the LLM and trains only an adapter on self-generated targets. However, this fails for reasoning LLMs (RLMs) whose built-in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Petr Grinberg , Hassan Shahmohammadi

Multi-agent AI systems have proven effective for complex reasoning. These systems are compounded by specialized agents, which collaborate through explicit communication, but incur substantial computational overhead. A natural question…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Xiaoxiao Li

Empathy is central to human connection, yet people often struggle to express it effectively. In blinded evaluations, large language models (LLMs) generate responses that are often judged more empathic than human-written ones. Yet when a…

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