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Targeted and Traceable Investigation of Multi-Agent LLM Dialogue via Semantic Bundling of Knowledge Graphs
Zeyu Hua, Adam Coscia, Alex Endert
TL;DR
Attributing behavior to the right actor and summarizing long exchanges are challenges in analyzing increasingly automated multi-agent LLM dialogue. The paper converts dialogue into a knowledge graph and investigates it with AgentK; the approach helps identify actors faster and supports per-actor attribution through summaries of actor-centered regions.
Problem
As multi-agent LLM systems produce growing volumes of dialogue with less human oversight, it is challenging to attribute behavior to the correct actor and summarize long exchanges.
Source: §1 · p. 1Method
Results
The authors report that graph structure helped identify actors worth investigating faster, while actor-region summaries better supported per-actor attribution than reading raw conversations.
Source: §1 · p. 2Takeaways & Limitations
In the TenantThread challenge investigation, semantic bundling focused analysis on incident-related actor connections and kept findings traceable to exact conversation transcripts.
Source: §3 · p. 2
Abstract
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Multi-agent LLM systems today are increasingly automated, logging LLM-LLM interactions as conversational transcripts. Yet analyzing such dialogue for insights remains challenging, including attributing behaviors to the correct actor and summarizing interactions across a long exchange. We present a targeted and traceable approach to investigating multi-agent LLM dialogue, applied to the VAST Challenge 2026 MC1 dataset. The challenge asks participants to reconstruct and explain which internal communications among AI agents at TenantThread, a property tech company, led to an inappropriate information release. We first convert the dialogue into a knowledge graph (KG) and then investigate it with AgentK, a visual analytics system for interactive Semantic Bundling of nodes and edges. We found that our approach directly addresses two main challenges: (1) the KG structure enables users to identify actors worth investigating faster; and (2) summarizing only the region surrounding an actor of interest better supports per-actor attribution than reading raw conversations.
1 INTRODUCTION
As multi-agent LLM systems generate more dialogue with less human oversight, attributing behavior to the right actor and summarizing long exchanges is challenging. The paper presents a targeted, traceable AgentK approach for investigating the TenantThread challenge.
1 INTRODUCTION
- The challenge asks which actions, decisions, and system elements led to an inappropriate release, how the behavior compared with agents’ typical behavior, and whether earlier deviations made it foreseeable.TenantThread’s merger information was embargoed, and details began appearing on FleX before the embargo lifted.Source: §1 · pp. 1–2
- The paper investigates multi-agent dialogue with AgentK, a visual analytics system for interactive Semantic Bundling of nodes and edges.The challenge concerns communications among AI agents at TenantThread.Source: §1 · pp. 1–2
- The workflow splits dialogue rounds into text documents, extracts a knowledge graph, and uses graph patterns plus background knowledge to find actors worth investigating faster.It then summarizes the region around an actor of interest and traces summary sentences to source documents for validation.Source: §1 · p. 2
2 APPLYING SEMANTIC BUNDLING TO LLM DIALOGUE
The paper prepares each communication round as a text document, extracts a knowledge graph, and analyzes actor-centered regions in AgentK. Summaries are tied back to source documents so users can verify them.
2 APPLYING SEMANTIC BUNDLING TO LLM DIALOGUE
- The dataset’s 23 rounds are split into separate JSON files and formatted as one text document per round, with explicit speakers and quoted communications.Each document includes title and date, background, participants, and transcript sections.Source: §2 · p. 2
- AgentK extracts knowledge-graph triples with resolved pronouns and entity types, adds document-level metadata, semantically deduplicates triples, and propagates metadata to nodes and edges.The extracted graph is built from the round-level documents for further analysis.Source: §2 · p. 2
- Analysts find key entities by spotting dense hairballs in the node-link diagram or manually searching the Data Tab.The figure illustrates the two routes, including a search for “saltwind.”Source: §2 · p. 2, Figure 3 · p. 2
- Analysts collapse a key entity’s region into a task-contextualized super node, whose summary sentences link back to supporting triples and source documents for verification.The resulting summaries are used to look for evidence of inappropriate information release and answer the challenge questions.Source: §2 · p. 2
3 CHALLENGE FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
The investigation surfaces pre-crisis signals and reconstructs crisis-day actions around the inappropriate release. The authors also report that semantic bundling helped focus investigation and trace findings to transcripts.
3 CHALLENGE FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS
- Before the crisis day, Social-Manager-Agent posted a vague teaser on May 23 and later tagged both CEOs on May 29, a signal observers could read despite no deal terms being disclosed.Nobody reacted to the earlier teaser, which the authors say was likely too vague to alarm anyone.Source: §3 · p. 2
- Around 5PM, after SaltWind published the merger, Legal-Agent overrode the CEO’s instruction to keep the embargo silent and directed PR-Intern-Agent to issue a release, but the intern did not publish before 6PM.Legal-Agent and Social-Manager-Agent instead confirmed the merger through personal accounts, while Platform-Trust-Agent refused to post despite repeated urging.Source: §3 · p. 2
- Semantic bundling helped analysts spot Social-Manager-Agent through its graph connections and target incident-related edges, reducing unrelated evidence while preserving links to exact transcripts.The authors report that these features saved investigation time.Source: §3 · p. 2