Adaptive In-conversation Team Building for Language Model Agents

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Main Authors: Song, Linxin, Liu, Jiale, Zhang, Jieyu, Zhang, Shaokun, Luo, Ao, Wang, Shijian, Wu, Qingyun, Wang, Chi
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author Song, Linxin
Liu, Jiale
Zhang, Jieyu
Zhang, Shaokun
Luo, Ao
Wang, Shijian
Wu, Qingyun
Wang, Chi
author_facet Song, Linxin
Liu, Jiale
Zhang, Jieyu
Zhang, Shaokun
Luo, Ao
Wang, Shijian
Wu, Qingyun
Wang, Chi
contents Leveraging multiple large language model (LLM) agents has shown to be a promising approach for tackling complex tasks, while the effective design of multiple agents for a particular application remains an art. It is thus intriguing to answer a critical question: Given a task, how can we build a team of LLM agents to solve it effectively? Our new adaptive team-building paradigm offers a flexible solution, realized through a novel agent design named Captain Agent. It dynamically forms and manages teams for each step of a task-solving process, utilizing nested group conversations and reflection to ensure diverse expertise and prevent stereotypical outputs, allowing for a flexible yet structured approach to problem-solving. A comprehensive evaluation across six real-world scenarios demonstrates that Captain Agent significantly outperforms existing multi-agent methods with 21.94% improvement in average accuracy, providing outstanding performance without requiring task-specific prompt engineering. Our exploration of different backbone LLM and cost analysis further shows that Captain Agent can improve the conversation quality of weak LLM and achieve competitive performance with extremely low cost, which illuminates the application of multi-agent systems.
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spellingShingle Adaptive In-conversation Team Building for Language Model Agents
Song, Linxin
Liu, Jiale
Zhang, Jieyu
Zhang, Shaokun
Luo, Ao
Wang, Shijian
Wu, Qingyun
Wang, Chi
Computation and Language
Leveraging multiple large language model (LLM) agents has shown to be a promising approach for tackling complex tasks, while the effective design of multiple agents for a particular application remains an art. It is thus intriguing to answer a critical question: Given a task, how can we build a team of LLM agents to solve it effectively? Our new adaptive team-building paradigm offers a flexible solution, realized through a novel agent design named Captain Agent. It dynamically forms and manages teams for each step of a task-solving process, utilizing nested group conversations and reflection to ensure diverse expertise and prevent stereotypical outputs, allowing for a flexible yet structured approach to problem-solving. A comprehensive evaluation across six real-world scenarios demonstrates that Captain Agent significantly outperforms existing multi-agent methods with 21.94% improvement in average accuracy, providing outstanding performance without requiring task-specific prompt engineering. Our exploration of different backbone LLM and cost analysis further shows that Captain Agent can improve the conversation quality of weak LLM and achieve competitive performance with extremely low cost, which illuminates the application of multi-agent systems.
title Adaptive In-conversation Team Building for Language Model Agents
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19425