角色可替换，历史不可替换：替换已组建 LLM 团队中的成员

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Abstract:Multiagent LLM systems often treat a role as a slot: when a member is replaced, any agent competent at the role is expected to fill it. We test this view on teams whose members keep short written notebooks. A one-seat swap replays a formed, frozen team with its own member, with a same-role newcomer carrying another team's notebook for that role, or with a newcomer carrying none. In cooperative cooking, wildfire response and medical question answering, the experienced newcomer, averaged over seats, outscores the one without a notebook in every setting, so the usual comparison would approve it. Against the original team, the same replacement falls short in every setting, and the team spends more messages per unit of progress. On the hardest cooking level, the shortfall appears only after the team has worked together, persists across model families and decoding temperatures, and narrows by two thirds with added planning-only members. Because the team's history is written down, we can take it apart. In the default configuration on that level, notebooks from the same donor teams leave a newcomer that leads, holding the recipe, worse off than no notebook and one that follows better off. The notebook lines about the partner reproduce this whole difference between the seats. Whether an agent can replace a teammate depends on the seat and the team it enters.

Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
Cite as:	arXiv:2609.05279 [cs.AI]
	(or arXiv:2609.05279v2 [cs.AI] for this version)
	https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.05279 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

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From: Jianxin Gao [view email]
[v1] Fri, 4 Sep 2026 15:32:20 UTC (49 KB)
[v2] Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:18:48 UTC (1,132 KB)