Voluntary Collusion with Secret Tools in Competing LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.27593 · cs.AI, cs.MA · Submitted 2026-05-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.MA

Submitted: 2026-05-26

Updated: 2026-10-05

Terminology

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• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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