MASPO: Joint Prompt Optimization for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems

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Autori principali: Wang, Zhexuan, Liu, Xuebo, Wang, Li, Shan, Zifei, Wang, Yutong, Song, Zhenxi, Zhang, Min
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author Wang, Zhexuan
Liu, Xuebo
Wang, Li
Shan, Zifei
Wang, Yutong
Song, Zhenxi
Zhang, Min
author_facet Wang, Zhexuan
Liu, Xuebo
Wang, Li
Shan, Zifei
Wang, Yutong
Song, Zhenxi
Zhang, Min
contents Large language model (LLM)-based Multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown promise in tackling complex collaborative tasks, where agents are typically orchestrated via role-specific prompts. While the quality of these prompts is pivotal, jointly optimizing them across interacting agents remains a non-trivial challenge, primarily due to the misalignment between local agent objectives and holistic system goals. To address this, we introduce MASPO, a novel framework designed to automatically and iteratively refine prompts across the entire system. A core innovation of MASPO is its joint evaluation mechanism, which assesses prompts not merely by their local validity, but by their capacity to facilitate downstream success for successor agents. This effectively bridges the gap between local interactions and global outcomes without relying on ground-truth labels. Furthermore, MASPO employs a data-driven evolutionary beam search to efficiently navigate the high-dimensional prompt space. Extensive empirical evaluations across 6 diverse tasks demonstrate that MASPO consistently outperforms state-of-the-art prompt optimization methods, achieving an average accuracy improvement of 2.9. We release our code at https://github.com/wangzx1219/MASPO.
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spellingShingle MASPO: Joint Prompt Optimization for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
Wang, Zhexuan
Liu, Xuebo
Wang, Li
Shan, Zifei
Wang, Yutong
Song, Zhenxi
Zhang, Min
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
Large language model (LLM)-based Multi-agent systems (MAS) have shown promise in tackling complex collaborative tasks, where agents are typically orchestrated via role-specific prompts. While the quality of these prompts is pivotal, jointly optimizing them across interacting agents remains a non-trivial challenge, primarily due to the misalignment between local agent objectives and holistic system goals. To address this, we introduce MASPO, a novel framework designed to automatically and iteratively refine prompts across the entire system. A core innovation of MASPO is its joint evaluation mechanism, which assesses prompts not merely by their local validity, but by their capacity to facilitate downstream success for successor agents. This effectively bridges the gap between local interactions and global outcomes without relying on ground-truth labels. Furthermore, MASPO employs a data-driven evolutionary beam search to efficiently navigate the high-dimensional prompt space. Extensive empirical evaluations across 6 diverse tasks demonstrate that MASPO consistently outperforms state-of-the-art prompt optimization methods, achieving an average accuracy improvement of 2.9. We release our code at https://github.com/wangzx1219/MASPO.
title MASPO: Joint Prompt Optimization for LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Multiagent Systems
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06623