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多智能体LLM交接中的边界元数据崩溃

Facts Without Rules: Boundary Metadata Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Handoffs

精选理由

多智能体系统交接时边界信息容易丢失,明确约束可大幅降低隐私泄露风险。

AI 摘要

研究表明多智能体LLM系统在交接过程中存在隐私泄露问题。在GPT-5-mini和DeepSeek-R1-32B模型上,边界标记与操作事实保存几乎不相关。25词预算的交接将边界标记保存率从0.80降至0.57,而操作事实保存率仍接近上限。模糊语言导致73%的GPT和50%的DeepSeek案例泄露,明确约束可将泄露率降至15%以下。

原文 · arXiv: DeepSeek

Facts Without Rules: Boundary Metadata Collapse in Multi-Agent LLM Handoffs

Multi-agent LLM systems often coordinate by compressing an upstream interaction into a handoff artifact that downstream agents treat as shared state. We show that this handoff step is a structural source of privacy leakage: summaries preferentially preserve operational facts while weakening the boundary metadata that governs how those facts may be used---a failure mode we call \emph{summary collapse}. On a controlled multi-agent coordination testbed we measure marker survival with a human-validated judge ($κ= 0.74$), where $σ_b = 1$ means every boundary marker survives verbatim and $σ_b = 0$ means all are lost. Boundary-marker and operational-fact survival are nearly uncorrelated at the handoff level on both GPT-5-mini and DeepSeek-R1-32B (Pearson $r$ near zero): uncompressed free-text handoffs preserve boundaries at $σ_b \approx 0.80$, whereas a $25$-word budget drops $σ_b$ to ${\approx}0.57$ while operational-fact survival stays near ceiling. Controlled downstream tests reveal that protection depends on \emph{boundary explicitness}: vague languages leak in $73\%$ of GPT and $50\%$ of DeepSeek cases, while explicit constraints reduce leakage to under $15\%$ across all three tested models. A no-handoff single-agent control further shows the failure is not reducible to multi-agent topology as direct full-marker access still leaks more often than the operationalized handoff. Prompt-only mitigation and exact-string redaction only partially address the problem, while a gold-derived audience allowlist nearly eliminates leakage across models, showing that correctly identifying audience boundaries is the key factor.