The Illusion of Independent Quorums: Epistemic Fault Domains and Correlated Cognitive Failures in Agentic Quorums
4.20T1 sourcearXiv cs.MA
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Published by arXiv cs.MA (T1 source). The original is at https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.02925.
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SummaryThe paper introduces Epistemic Fault Domains (EFDs) and a structural cut metric κ_E to formalize the failure mode where multi-agent quorums share upstream inputs, telemetry, or tool backends, collapsing multiple votes onto a single corrupted cause. It proves quorum size does not guarantee epistemic redundancy and presents the DAQC controller plus a 120-task benchmark.
Why it mattersGives a precise vocabulary and runtime-enforceable metric for a correlated-failure mode in multi-agent voting that most teams currently handle only by intuition.
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