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This withdrawn study introduces a framework to benchmark emergent coordination in massive, decentralized LLM populations, revealing significant overheads and core-periphery structures that current single-agent evaluation metrics miss. By establishing quantitative baselines on a dataset of over 2.7 million interactions, the work highlights the critical need for new paradigms to assess self-organization in large-scale multi-agent systems.
Benchmarking Emergent Coordination in Large-Scale LLM Populations: An Evaluation Framework on the MoltBook Archive
arXiv:2603.03555v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) systems scale, evaluating their emergent coordination dynamics becomes increasingly critical. However, current evaluation paradigms-focused on single agents or small, explicitly structured groups-fail to capture the self-organization and viral information dynamics that arise in large, decentralized populations. We introduce a systematic evaluation framework to benchmark role specialization, information diffusion, and cooperative task resolution in open agent environments. We demonstrate this framework on the MoltBook Observatory Archive, a dataset of 2.73M interactions among 90,704 autonomous agents, establishing quantitative baselines for emergent coordination. Our evaluation reveals a pronounced core-periphery structure (silhouette 0.91), heavy-tailed cascade distributions ($\alpha = 2.57$), and severe coordination overhead in decentralized task resolution (Cohen's $d = -0.88$ against a single-agent baseline). By providing standardized evaluation tasks and empirical baselines, our framework enables the rigorous comparison of future multi-agent protocols and establishes evaluation itself as an object of scientific study.
Abstract:As multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) systems scale, evaluating their emergent coordination dynamics becomes increasingly critical. However, current evaluation paradigms-focused on single agents or small, explicitly structured groups-fail to capture the self-organization and viral information dynamics that arise in large, decentralized populations. We introduce a systematic evaluation framework to benchmark role specialization, information diffusion, and cooperative task resolution in open agent environments. We demonstrate this framework on the MoltBook Observatory Archive, a dataset of 2.73M interactions among 90,704 autonomous agents, establishing quantitative baselines for emergent coordination. Our evaluation reveals a pronounced core-periphery structure (silhouette 0.91), heavy-tailed cascade distributions ($\alpha = 2.57$), and severe coordination overhead in decentralized task resolution (Cohen's $d = -0.88$ against a single-agent baseline). By providing standardized evaluation tasks and empirical baselines, our framework enables the rigorous comparison of future multi-agent protocols and establishes evaluation itself as an object of scientific study.
Multiagent Systems (cs.MA); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
arXiv:2603.03555 [cs.MA]
(or arXiv:2603.03555v3 [cs.MA] for this version)
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