MM-EPC

Contagion Networks: formal framework for measuring evaluator bias propagation in multi-agent LLM systems

A new arXiv preprint introduces Contagion Networks, a formal framework for quantifying how systematic evaluation biases spread across interacting LLM agents in multi-agent systems. Using a controlled 3-agent experiment with DeepSeek-chat, the authors measure a Cross-Agent Contagion Matrix and find that homogeneous-model agents produce contagion coefficients 3-5x weaker than cross-model settings. A key practical finding is that increasing evaluator committee size from k=1 to k=3 reduces effective contagion by 72.4%, offering a concrete mitigation strategy. The authors release an open-source experimental framework alongside the paper.