EASYTOOL: Enhancing LLM-based Agents with Concise Tool Instruction
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| author | Yuan, Siyu Song, Kaitao Chen, Jiangjie Tan, Xu Shen, Yongliang Kan, Ren Li, Dongsheng Yang, Deqing |
| author_facet | Yuan, Siyu Song, Kaitao Chen, Jiangjie Tan, Xu Shen, Yongliang Kan, Ren Li, Dongsheng Yang, Deqing |
| contents | To address intricate real-world tasks, there has been a rising interest in tool utilization in applications of large language models (LLMs). To develop LLM-based agents, it usually requires LLMs to understand many tool functions from different tool documentation. But these documentations could be diverse, redundant or incomplete, which immensely affects the capability of LLMs in using tools. To solve this, we introduce EASYTOOL, a framework transforming diverse and lengthy tool documentation into a unified and concise tool instruction for easier tool usage. EasyTool purifies essential information from extensive tool documentation of different sources, and elaborates a unified interface (i.e., tool instruction) to offer standardized tool descriptions and functionalities for LLM-based agents. Extensive experiments on multiple different tasks demonstrate that EasyTool can significantly reduce token consumption and improve the performance of tool utilization in real-world scenarios. Our code will be available at \url{https://github.com/microsoft/JARVIS/} in the future. |
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| spellingShingle | EASYTOOL: Enhancing LLM-based Agents with Concise Tool Instruction Yuan, Siyu Song, Kaitao Chen, Jiangjie Tan, Xu Shen, Yongliang Kan, Ren Li, Dongsheng Yang, Deqing Computation and Language To address intricate real-world tasks, there has been a rising interest in tool utilization in applications of large language models (LLMs). To develop LLM-based agents, it usually requires LLMs to understand many tool functions from different tool documentation. But these documentations could be diverse, redundant or incomplete, which immensely affects the capability of LLMs in using tools. To solve this, we introduce EASYTOOL, a framework transforming diverse and lengthy tool documentation into a unified and concise tool instruction for easier tool usage. EasyTool purifies essential information from extensive tool documentation of different sources, and elaborates a unified interface (i.e., tool instruction) to offer standardized tool descriptions and functionalities for LLM-based agents. Extensive experiments on multiple different tasks demonstrate that EasyTool can significantly reduce token consumption and improve the performance of tool utilization in real-world scenarios. Our code will be available at \url{https://github.com/microsoft/JARVIS/} in the future. |
| title | EASYTOOL: Enhancing LLM-based Agents with Concise Tool Instruction |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06201 |