Evolution of Cooperation in LLM-Agent Societies: A Preliminary Study Using Different Punishment Strategies
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| author | Warnakulasuriya, Kavindu Dissanayake, Prabhash De Silva, Navindu Cranefield, Stephen Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy Ranathunga, Surangika de Silva, Nisansa |
| author_facet | Warnakulasuriya, Kavindu Dissanayake, Prabhash De Silva, Navindu Cranefield, Stephen Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy Ranathunga, Surangika de Silva, Nisansa |
| contents | The evolution of cooperation has been extensively studied using abstract mathematical models and simulations. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and the rise of LLM agents have demonstrated their ability to perform social reasoning, thus providing an opportunity to test the emergence of norms in more realistic agent-based simulations with human-like reasoning using natural language. In this research, we investigate whether the cooperation dynamics presented in Boyd and Richerson's model persist in a more realistic simulation of the Diner's Dilemma using LLM agents compared to the abstract mathematical nature in the work of Boyd and Richerson. Our findings indicate that agents follow the strategies defined in the Boyd and Richerson model, and explicit punishment mechanisms drive norm emergence, reinforcing cooperative behaviour even when the agent strategy configuration varies. Our results suggest that LLM-based Multi-Agent System simulations, in fact, can replicate the evolution of cooperation predicted by the traditional mathematical models. Moreover, our simulations extend beyond the mathematical models by integrating natural language-driven reasoning and a pairwise imitation method for strategy adoption, making them a more realistic testbed for cooperative behaviour in MASs. |
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| spellingShingle | Evolution of Cooperation in LLM-Agent Societies: A Preliminary Study Using Different Punishment Strategies Warnakulasuriya, Kavindu Dissanayake, Prabhash De Silva, Navindu Cranefield, Stephen Savarimuthu, Bastin Tony Roy Ranathunga, Surangika de Silva, Nisansa Multiagent Systems The evolution of cooperation has been extensively studied using abstract mathematical models and simulations. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) and the rise of LLM agents have demonstrated their ability to perform social reasoning, thus providing an opportunity to test the emergence of norms in more realistic agent-based simulations with human-like reasoning using natural language. In this research, we investigate whether the cooperation dynamics presented in Boyd and Richerson's model persist in a more realistic simulation of the Diner's Dilemma using LLM agents compared to the abstract mathematical nature in the work of Boyd and Richerson. Our findings indicate that agents follow the strategies defined in the Boyd and Richerson model, and explicit punishment mechanisms drive norm emergence, reinforcing cooperative behaviour even when the agent strategy configuration varies. Our results suggest that LLM-based Multi-Agent System simulations, in fact, can replicate the evolution of cooperation predicted by the traditional mathematical models. Moreover, our simulations extend beyond the mathematical models by integrating natural language-driven reasoning and a pairwise imitation method for strategy adoption, making them a more realistic testbed for cooperative behaviour in MASs. |
| title | Evolution of Cooperation in LLM-Agent Societies: A Preliminary Study Using Different Punishment Strategies |
| topic | Multiagent Systems |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19487 |