BOUNDARY_SYNC: Measuring Communication-Induced Representational Coupling in Multi-Agent LLM Systems
arXiv cs.LG4w4 min read
arXiv:2607.01600v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are deployed as communicating agents, does inter-agent communication cause outputs to converge? We introduce BOUNDARY_SYNC, a protocol measuring representational coupling via the Coupling Amplification Factor (CAF = JSD_cond / JSD_baseline), where CAF 1 indicates diversification. In controlled GPT-4o experiments (N=30, ~9,900 API calls), we measure coupling in text and image communication. Key findings: (1) text communication causes significant homogenization (CAF=0.803 [0.740, 0.873], d=1.30, p 1.0 (point estimate