Beyond Corrected Memory: Execution Consistency in Multi-Agent Systems
Researchers show correct shared memory can mask duty violations and introduce CAVERT for diagnosis.
The paper defines execution consistency for multi-agent systems through duties over state use, information handoffs, and final-state agreement, arguing that identical retained records can match both compliant and violating executions. Removing evidence such as receipts, action dependence, or response validity left 82.4% of opposite-label pairs indistinguishable, while restoration separated 97.9%. CAVERT extracts supported relationships from logs and outperformed contract-prompted LLM and rule-based baselines in all 12 benchmark-executor diagnosis settings, and beat rule-guided recovery in all four evaluated environments.
- Correct shared memory can correspond to both compliant and violating executions.
- Removing key evidence left 82.4% of opposite pairs indistinguishable.
- Restoring that evidence separated 97.9% of the merged pairs.
- CAVERT led diagnosis across all 12 benchmark-executor settings.
From the original article
1 min read at arxiv.orgShared memory coordinates agents' actions, but correct records do not establish that those actions satisfy task requirements. Memory governance and failure diagnosis regulate or inspect recorded information; they do not by themselves establish whether it is sufficient to judge task duties.
By Zhe Yu · arxiv.org
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