AI RESEARCH
You Only Align Once: Propagating Cooperative Behaviors in Multi-Agent Systems through Seed Agents
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2605.27586v1 Announce Type: cross Ensuring agent behaviors in distributed open multi-agent systems remains challenging, especially as populations grow and unaligned agents may exist. We show that a single aligned agent can propagate cooperative behaviors to untrained agents purely through natural language interaction, a phenomenon we term Alignment Propagation. We study this in the Red-Black Game, a team-based iterated Prisoner's Dilemma in which teammates deliberate and vote to determine their team's collective action.