Behavior is Not Enough: A Mechanism-Based Evaluation of Social Norm Emergence in LLM Societies

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-22 in cs.CL. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-09-22 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-09-23

Category: cs.CL · 自然语言处理 · first seen 2026-09-23

Abstract

Social norms cannot be identified from behavior alone: the same cooperative equilibrium may reflect shared expectations, strategic incentives, or simple imitation. Yet in multi-agent large language model systems, prior work largely treats behavioral convergence as evidence of norm emergence. In this work, we introduce an evaluation framework that measures agents' reported empirical and normative e

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