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Semantic Consensus: Process-Aware Conflict Detection and Resolution for Enterprise Multi-Agent LLM Systems

The Semantic Consensus Framework (SCF) addresses the high failure rates in multi-agent LLM systems by resolving semantic intent divergence, achieving a 100% workflow completion rate in enterprise scenarios.

Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

Title:Semantic Consensus: Process-Aware Conflict Detection and Resolution for Enterprise Multi-Agent LLM Systems

Multi-agent large language model (LLM) systems are rapidly emerging as the dominant architecture for enterprise AI automation, yet production deployments exhibit failure rates between 41% and 86.7%, with nearly 79% of failures originating from specification and coordination issues rather than model capability limitations. This paper identifies Semantic Intent Divergence--the phenomenon whereby cooperating LLM agents develop inconsistent interpretations of shared objectives due to siloed context and absent process models--as a primary yet formally unaddressed root cause of multi-agent failure in enterprise settings. We propose the Semantic Consensus Framework (SCF), a process-aware middleware comprising six components: a Process Context Layer for shared operational semantics, a Semantic Intent Graph for formal intent representation, a Conflict Detection Engine for real-time identification of contradictory, contention-based, and causally invalid intent combinations, a Consensus Resolution Protocol using a policy--authority--temporal hierarchy, a Drift Monitor for detecting gradual semantic divergence, and a Process-Aware Governance Integration layer for organizational policy enforcement. Evaluation across 600 runs spanning three multi-agent frameworks (AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph) and four enterprise scenarios demonstrates that SCF is the only approach to achieve 100% workflow completion--compared to 25.1% for the next-best baseline--while detecting 65.2% of semantic conflicts with 27.9% precision and providing complete governance audit trails. The framework is protocol-agnostic and compatible with MCP and A2A communication standards.

Source: arXiv cs.AI Recent

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