Summary of Avatar: Optimizing Llm Agents For Tool Usage Via Contrastive Reasoning, by Shirley Wu et al.
AvaTaR: Optimizing LLM Agents for Tool Usage via Contrastive Reasoning
by Shirley Wu, Shiyu Zhao, Qian Huang, Kexin Huang, Michihiro Yasunaga, Kaidi Cao, Vassilis N. Ioannidis, Karthik Subbian, Jure Leskovec, James Zou
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary AvaTaR, a novel automated framework, optimizes large language model (LLM) agents to leverage provided tools and knowledge, improving task performance. The framework incorporates a comparator module that iteratively delivers informative prompts by reasoning between positive and negative examples from training data. AvaTaR outperforms state-of-the-art approaches on seven complex multimodal retrieval and question-answering tasks, achieving an average relative improvement of 13% (14% for retrieval and 13% for QA) on the Hit@1 metric. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary AvaTaR is a special kind of computer program that helps other programs learn and get better at doing tasks. It makes these programs ask questions in a smart way, which helps them understand things better. AvaTaR works really well and makes the programs it helps more accurate. In tests, AvaTaR was better than what’s already out there, and it can even do new tasks that it hasn’t seen before. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Large language model » Question answering
