Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models
Lars Henning Klein, Nearchos Potamitis, Roland C. Aydin, Robert West, Caglar Gulcehre, Akhil Arora
Abstract
While numerous frameworks have been developed to enhance the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs), there is a scarcity of methods that effectively balance the trade-off between cost and quality. In this paper, we introduce FLEET OF AGENTS (FOA), a novel and intuitive yet principled framework utilizing LLMs as agents to navigate through dynamic tree searches, employing a genetic-type particle filtering approach. FOA spawns a multitude of agents, each exploring the search space autonomously, followed by a selection phase where resampling based on a heuristic value function optimizes the balance between exploration and exploitation. This mechanism enables dynamic branching, adapting the exploration strategy based on discovered solutions. We conduct extensive experiments on three benchmark tasks, "Game of 24"
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