Premature Narrative Closure and Drift in Recursive Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems

While experimenting with recursive reasoning systems composed of multiple agents exchanging intermediate beliefs, a recurring structural behavior was observed. Even when outputs remained syntactically valid and deterministic decoding was used, belief reinforcement cycles sometimes produced premature narrative closure before any explicit error appeared. Once such closure occurred, later perturbations could propagate and amplify through the recursive interaction loop. This note describes the phenomenon and proposes a simple stability principle governing epistemic authority in recursive reasoning systems.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-03-09
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18920488
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Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
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Premature Narrative Closure and Drift in Recursive Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems

Thom Pham
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge
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Premature Narrative Closure and Drift in Recursive Multi-Agent Reasoning Systems

Thom Pham
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Abstract

While experimenting with recursive reasoning systems composed of multiple agents exchanging intermediate beliefs, a recurring structural behavior was observed. Even when outputs remained syntactically valid and deterministic decoding was used, belief reinforcement cycles sometimes produced premature narrative closure before any explicit error appeared. Once such closure occurred, later perturbations could propagate and amplify through the recursive interaction loop. This note describes the phenomenon and proposes a simple stability principle governing epistemic authority in recursive reasoning systems.

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