arxivcs.SIeess.SY2026-07-01
Emergence of Preferential Attachment and Glass-Ceiling Effects in Autonomous Networks of LLMs
Yiming Zhang, Vikram Krishnamurthy
We investigate the emergence of structural disparities in networks of collaborating large language model (LLM) agents. When LLM agents autonomously choose collaborators, the resulting communication network exhibits preferential-attachment dynamics: agents that are already promine…