A belief layer lets LLM agents' stubbornness be set and verified

Bayesian Chronicle Agents separate belief from speech, enabling controllable opinion regimes with verifiable parameters.

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Hafsa Akbar · Daniel Platnick · Marjan Alirezaie · Hossein Rahnama

MIT Media Lab · Flybits Labs · Creative AI Hub · Toronto Metropolitan University

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The authors introduce Bayesian Chronicle Agents (BCA), a minimal belief layer that explicitly models each LLM agent's stance as a probability updated by Bayesian inference upon hearing utterances.

Akbar et al.

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From MIT Media Lab and 3 others · Released code · Part of Multi-Agent Coordination, now 24 papers

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A Bayesian belief layer with a stubbornness parameter enables controllable and auditable opinion dynamics in LLM agents.

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