TimeArena: Shaping Efficient Multitasking Language Agents in a Time-Aware Simulation
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| author | Zhang, Yikai Yuan, Siyu Hu, Caiyu Richardson, Kyle Xiao, Yanghua Chen, Jiangjie |
| author_facet | Zhang, Yikai Yuan, Siyu Hu, Caiyu Richardson, Kyle Xiao, Yanghua Chen, Jiangjie |
| contents | Despite remarkable advancements in emulating human-like behavior through Large Language Models (LLMs), current textual simulations do not adequately address the notion of time. To this end, we introduce TimeArena, a novel textual simulated environment that incorporates complex temporal dynamics and constraints that better reflect real-life planning scenarios. In TimeArena, agents are asked to complete multiple tasks as soon as possible, allowing for parallel processing to save time. We implement the dependency between actions, the time duration for each action, and the occupancy of the agent and the objects in the environment. TimeArena grounds to 30 real-world tasks in cooking, household activities, and laboratory work. We conduct extensive experiments with various state-of-the-art LLMs using TimeArena. Our findings reveal that even the most powerful models, e.g., GPT-4, still lag behind humans in effective multitasking, underscoring the need for enhanced temporal awareness in the development of language agents. |
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| spellingShingle | TimeArena: Shaping Efficient Multitasking Language Agents in a Time-Aware Simulation Zhang, Yikai Yuan, Siyu Hu, Caiyu Richardson, Kyle Xiao, Yanghua Chen, Jiangjie Computation and Language Despite remarkable advancements in emulating human-like behavior through Large Language Models (LLMs), current textual simulations do not adequately address the notion of time. To this end, we introduce TimeArena, a novel textual simulated environment that incorporates complex temporal dynamics and constraints that better reflect real-life planning scenarios. In TimeArena, agents are asked to complete multiple tasks as soon as possible, allowing for parallel processing to save time. We implement the dependency between actions, the time duration for each action, and the occupancy of the agent and the objects in the environment. TimeArena grounds to 30 real-world tasks in cooking, household activities, and laboratory work. We conduct extensive experiments with various state-of-the-art LLMs using TimeArena. Our findings reveal that even the most powerful models, e.g., GPT-4, still lag behind humans in effective multitasking, underscoring the need for enhanced temporal awareness in the development of language agents. |
| title | TimeArena: Shaping Efficient Multitasking Language Agents in a Time-Aware Simulation |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05733 |