transitive trust aggregation

Ev-Trust: An Evolutionarily Stable Trust Mechanism for Decentralized LLM-Based Multi-Agent Service Economies

arXiv:2512.16167v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decentralized LLM-based multi-agent service economies face three vulnerabilities that undermine traditional trust mechanisms: reduced cost of fraud, difficulty in evaluating service quality, and instability of service content. These compounding vulnerabilities can trigger population-level trust collapse and the proliferation of short-sighted strategies. We propose Ev-Trust, an evolutionarily stable trust mechanism that addresses these...