LatticeMind: A Conflict-Aware Memory Primitive for Multi-Agent Systems
Heng Zhou, Lian Zhang, Yutao Fan, Tiancheng He, Siki Chen, Hejia Geng, Philip Torr, Zhenfei Yin
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This work is relevant for AI researchers and engineers looking to improve the decision-making capabilities of multi-agent systems by effectively managing conflicting information.
LatticeMind enhances multi-agent systems by resolving contradictions at write time with a structured memory approach.
Summary
The paper introduces LatticeMind, a conflict-aware memory system for multi-agent LLM systems that addresses contradictions at the time of writing by maintaining explicit item status and applying symbolic conflict checks. It demonstrates improved accuracy over traditional aggregation methods in a label-blind evaluation and shows mixed results on planning benchmarks.
Key contributions
- Development of a conflict-aware structured memory system for multi-agent LLMs.
- Demonstration of significant accuracy improvements over traditional aggregation methods in a label-blind evaluation.
Notable insights
- LatticeMind uses symbolic conflict checks to handle contradictions efficiently, invoking LLM reconciliation only when necessary.
- The system maintains explicit item status to track the resolution of conflicts over time.
Possible limitations
- Mixed results on secondary planning benchmarks suggest limitations in replacing existing deliberation methods.
- Not stated in the abstract
Abstract
arXiv:2608.08236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent LLM systems often fail not for lack of candidate answers, but because they have no persistent mechanism for deciding which incompatible claim should currently be trusted. Majority vote, debate, and judge-based selection choose an output without recording which claim wins, which is contested, or why a later update supersedes it. We present \term{LatticeMind}, a conflict-aware structured memory that handles contradiction at write time. It maintains explicit item status, applies cheap symbolic conflict checks, and invokes LLM reconciliation only for unresolved semantic cases. On a label-blind ConflictBank evaluation that removes source-name hints, LatticeMind reaches 0.97 accuracy versus 0.61 for the strongest aggregation baseline, with the gap significant at $p<10^{-6}$ by paired McNemar test. Ablations show that removing the checker or the reconciler costs 12 to 14 points. On four secondary planning benchmarks the picture is mixed: LatticeMind beats naive merge on three of four, but does not replace deliberation methods on tasks rewarding iterative search.