MAPS: Modeling Co-Existing Subjective Perspectives and Shared Meaning in Multi-Agent Cognitive Dialogue

Abstract:

Human dialogue involves more than exchanging information—it expresses beliefs, emotions, and subjective cognitive styles. Yet current AI dialogue systems often enforce semantic uniformity, sacrificing diversity and interpretability. We present MAPS (Multi-Agent Perspective Spaces), a novel framework that models dialogue between cognitively distinct agents through domain-weighted profiles, dynamic GRU-based memory, and interpretable token-level attention. MAPS enables agents to maintain individualized reasoning while progressively converging on shared meaning. Evaluations on EmpatheticDialogues, TopicalChat, and MultiWOZ show that MAPS supports semantic alignment without collapsing subjectivity. Our results demonstrate a path toward cognitively grounded, interpretable dialogue systems that balance expressiveness and coherence