From Competition to Coordination: Market Making as a Scalable Framework for Safe and Aligned Multi-Agent LLM Systems

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Main Authors: Gho, Brendan, Muppavarapu, Suman, Shaik, Afnan, Tsay, Tyson, Mohan, Atharva, Begin, James, Zhu, Kevin, Vaidheeswaran, Archana, Sharma, Vasu
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author Gho, Brendan
Muppavarapu, Suman
Shaik, Afnan
Tsay, Tyson
Mohan, Atharva
Begin, James
Zhu, Kevin
Vaidheeswaran, Archana
Sharma, Vasu
author_facet Gho, Brendan
Muppavarapu, Suman
Shaik, Afnan
Tsay, Tyson
Mohan, Atharva
Begin, James
Zhu, Kevin
Vaidheeswaran, Archana
Sharma, Vasu
contents As foundation models are increasingly deployed as interacting agents in multi-agent systems, their collective behavior raises new challenges for trustworthiness, transparency, and accountability. Traditional coordination mechanisms, such as centralized oversight or adversarial adjudication, struggle to scale and often obscure how decisions emerge. We introduce a market-making framework for multi-agent large language model (LLM) coordination that organizes agent interactions as structured economic exchanges. In this setup, each agent acts as a market participant, updating and trading probabilistic beliefs, to converge toward shared, truthful outcomes. By aligning local incentives with collective epistemic goals, the framework promotes self-organizing, verifiable reasoning without requiring external enforcement. Empirically, we evaluate this approach across factual reasoning, ethical judgment, and commonsense inference tasks. Market-based coordination yields accuracy gains of up to 10% over single-shot baselines while preserving interpretability and transparency of intermediate reasoning steps. Beyond these improvements, our findings demonstrate that economic coordination principles can operationalize accountability and robustness in multi-agent LLM systems, offering a scalable pathway toward self-correcting, socially responsible AI capable of maintaining trust and oversight in real world deployment scenarios.
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spellingShingle From Competition to Coordination: Market Making as a Scalable Framework for Safe and Aligned Multi-Agent LLM Systems
Gho, Brendan
Muppavarapu, Suman
Shaik, Afnan
Tsay, Tyson
Mohan, Atharva
Begin, James
Zhu, Kevin
Vaidheeswaran, Archana
Sharma, Vasu
Multiagent Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
As foundation models are increasingly deployed as interacting agents in multi-agent systems, their collective behavior raises new challenges for trustworthiness, transparency, and accountability. Traditional coordination mechanisms, such as centralized oversight or adversarial adjudication, struggle to scale and often obscure how decisions emerge. We introduce a market-making framework for multi-agent large language model (LLM) coordination that organizes agent interactions as structured economic exchanges. In this setup, each agent acts as a market participant, updating and trading probabilistic beliefs, to converge toward shared, truthful outcomes. By aligning local incentives with collective epistemic goals, the framework promotes self-organizing, verifiable reasoning without requiring external enforcement. Empirically, we evaluate this approach across factual reasoning, ethical judgment, and commonsense inference tasks. Market-based coordination yields accuracy gains of up to 10% over single-shot baselines while preserving interpretability and transparency of intermediate reasoning steps. Beyond these improvements, our findings demonstrate that economic coordination principles can operationalize accountability and robustness in multi-agent LLM systems, offering a scalable pathway toward self-correcting, socially responsible AI capable of maintaining trust and oversight in real world deployment scenarios.
title From Competition to Coordination: Market Making as a Scalable Framework for Safe and Aligned Multi-Agent LLM Systems
topic Multiagent Systems
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.17621