Multi-Agent Fictitious Play (MAFP) applies game-theoretic equilibrium-seeking to LLM decision-making
Researchers propose Multi-Agent Fictitious Play (MAFP), a multi-agent system paradigm that frames LLM-based decision-making as an equilibrium-seeking process borrowed from game theory. Each agent represents a stakeholder stance and iteratively best-responds to the empirical mixture of other agents' past decisions, addressing what the authors call 'stance entanglement' — mutual interdependence among stakeholder decisions that cannot be decomposed into independent subtasks. MAFP is evaluated on competitive strategy tasks and outperforms single-round and multi-round baselines on tournament strength and robustness metrics. The work extends the MAS literature beyond divide-and-conquer execution patterns into interdependent decision scenarios.
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