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Shall We Team Up: Exploring Spontaneous Cooperation of Competing LLM Agents

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  • Zengqing Wu
  • Run Peng
  • Shuyuan Zheng
  • Qianying Liu
  • Xu Han
  • Brian Inhyuk Kwon
  • Makoto Onizuka
  • Shaojie Tang
  • Chuan Xiao

Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) have increasingly been utilized in social simulations, where they are often guided by carefully crafted instructions to stably exhibit human-like behaviors during simulations. Nevertheless, we doubt the necessity of shaping agents' behaviors for accurate social simulations. Instead, this paper emphasizes the importance of spontaneous phenomena, wherein agents deeply engage in contexts and make adaptive decisions without explicit directions. We explored spontaneous cooperation across three competitive scenarios and successfully simulated the gradual emergence of cooperation, findings that align closely with human behavioral data. This approach not only aids the computational social science community in bridging the gap between simulations and real-world dynamics but also offers the AI community a novel method to assess LLMs' capability of deliberate reasoning.

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  • Zengqing Wu & Run Peng & Shuyuan Zheng & Qianying Liu & Xu Han & Brian Inhyuk Kwon & Makoto Onizuka & Shaojie Tang & Chuan Xiao, 2024. "Shall We Team Up: Exploring Spontaneous Cooperation of Competing LLM Agents," Papers 2402.12327, arXiv.org, revised Oct 2024.
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