Counterfactual Graph for Multi-Agent LLM Calibration
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Title:Counterfactual Graph for Multi-Agent LLM Calibration
Abstract:Multi-agent LLM systems often treat agreement as evidence: when many agents in a panel give the same answer, that answer is assumed to be more reliable. We show that this assumption can fail after agents communicate. Communication can induce correlated failures and false consensus, so the same vote share may reflect reliable agreement in one topology but over-confidence in another. We propose CAGE-CAL, a counterfactual agent-graph calibration framework for multi-agent LLMs. For each query, CAGE-CAL compares an observed post-communication agent graph with a matched counterfactual no-communication graph, capturing both pairwise failure correlations and group-level dependencies. Rather than simply counting how many agents agree, CAGE-CAL estimates the counterfactual shift between observed and no-communication dependence, and calibrates confidence accordingly. Across five benchmarks, CAGE-CAL improves reliability discrimination with competitive ECE, and its calibrated confidence further improves topology selection over the best fixed-topology strategy.
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.30653 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2605.30653v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.30653
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