cs.MAJul 23, 2026

Spectral Dynamics of Semantic Drift in Clinical Multi-Agent Language Model Networks

Authors: Amritesh Banerjee

Organizations: University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

Abstract

The integration of iterative LLMs within multi-agent diagnostic frameworks requires a rigorous quantitative reevaluation of underlying communication topologies. Frequently used architectural paradigms depend on scale-free or small-world networks, assuming optimal communication efficiency. Our study mathematically dismantles that assumption for semantic data. By mapping multi-agent communication uncertainty trajectories onto a 768-dimensional Bio_ClinicalBERT embedding space via an analytical isotropic variance proxy using Barab'asi--Albert (BA) and Watts--Strogatz (WS) networks, we prove that structural bottlenecks compromise diagnostic safety. Our phase transition matrices illustrate that localized dense cliques confine hallucinated data, preventing global consensus and forcing the system toward a permanent entropy saturation threshold of H5.947H_{\infty} \approx 5.947. As a result, we measure a severe terminal cosine similarity degradation of 53.29%, completely overwriting the original ground-truth. Moreover, the terminal semantic drift reveals a catastrophic variance amplification of 51.81% (ρ=1.5181ρ= 1.5181) in highly clustered architectures, proving total system unpredictability when compared to Erdős--R'enyi configurations (ρ=1.0766ρ= 1.0766). Instead of reducing errors, hub-centric systems autonomously compound localized hallucinations. By introducing dynamic spectral monitoring operating at an O(N3)\mathcal{O}(N^3) time complexity and imposing a strict lower bound on algebraic connectivity (λ2minλ_{2_{min}}) via the continuous eigen-decomposition of the graph Laplacian, we present a mathematically rigorous technique to ensure global state diffusion. Securing the reliability of autonomous medical diagnostics necessitates treating topological stability as a non-negotiable quantitative imperative.

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