Beyond Alignment: Value Diversity as a Collective Property in Multicultural Agent Systems

arXiv:2606.05985 · cs.CL, cs.CY · Submitted 2026-06-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.CY

Submitted: 2026-06-04

Updated: 2026-08-29

Comments: emnlp2026findings

Code: https://github.com/iNLP-Lab/MultiAgent-Diversity

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 80× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Homogenization — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 11× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• World Values Survey — 5× in this paper
• Fidelity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Agents — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AI Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agent Interactions — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Multi-agent Collaboration — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

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• MoltNet: Understanding Social Behavior of AI Agents in the Agent-Native MoltBook
• LLM Agents in Interaction: Measuring Personality Consistency and Linguistic Alignment in Interacting Populations of Large Language Models
• OpenClaw Agents on Moltbook: Risky Instruction Sharing and Norm Enforcement in an Agent-Only Social Network
• Social physics in the age of artificial intelligence
• On the Dynamics of Multi-Agent LLM Communities Driven by Value Diversity
• "Humans welcome to observe": A First Look at the Agent Social Network Moltbook
• Reasoning Models Generate Societies of Thought
• Multi-Agent Teams Hold Experts Back
• Exploring Silicon-Based Societies: An Early Study of the Moltbook Agent Community
• Large Language Model Agent: A Survey on Methodology, Applications and Challenges
• Understanding Agent Scaling in LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems via Diversity
• Demystifying Multi-Agent Debate: The Role of Confidence and Diversity
• Multi-Agent Collaboration Mechanisms: A Survey of LLMs

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