AI RESEARCH

Talk is Cheap, Communication is Hard: Dynamic Grounding Failures and Repair in Multi-Agent Negotiation

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.01750v1 Announce Type: cross Grounding is the collaborative process of establishing mutual belief sufficient for the current communicative purpose. While static grounding maps language to a shared, externally observable context, dynamic grounding is a joint activity where meaning is negotiated through interaction. Current multi-agent Large Language Model (LLM) benchmarks focus on static, one-shot tasks, overlooking the ability to repair grounding breakdowns across turns. We