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Consensus Is All You Need: Gossip-Based Reasoning Among Large Language Models

Published: August 22, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.18292v1

By: Saksham Arora

Potential Business Impact:

AI models work together to give better answers.

Business Areas:
Crowdsourcing Collaboration

Plain English Summary

Imagine you have a team of smart AI assistants, but each one is good at different things. This new method lets them talk to each other, sharing their ideas and helping each other out until they all agree on the best answer. This means you get more reliable and accurate results, like having a group of experts collaborate to solve a problem, making the AI feel more like a helpful partner.

Large language models have advanced rapidly, but no single model excels in every area -- each has its strengths and weaknesses. Instead of relying on one model alone, we take inspiration from gossip protocols in distributed systems, where information is exchanged with peers until they all come to an agreement. In this setup, models exchange answers and gradually work toward a shared solution. Each LLM acts as a node in a peer-to-peer network, sharing responses and thought processes to reach a collective decision. Our results show that this "gossip-based consensus" leads to robust, resilient, and accurate multi-agent AI reasoning. It helps overcome the weaknesses of individual models and brings out their collective strengths. This approach is similar to how humans build consensus, making AI seem more collaborative and trustworthy instead of just a black-box program.

Page Count
4 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Multiagent Systems