Journal article
Consensus Too Soon, or Agreement From the Start? Shared Prior, Social Coupling and Pool Coverage in Decentralised LLM Collectives, and Why Prompted Diversity and Model Heterogeneity Act on Different Terms
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Groups of language-model agents that exchange answers and settle on a common one are now a standard way to build decentralised decision systems. A common worry is that they agree too soon: agents copy each other, diversity collapses, and the…