Summary of Investigate-consolidate-exploit: a General Strategy For Inter-task Agent Self-evolution, by Cheng Qian et al.
Investigate-Consolidate-Exploit: A General Strategy for Inter-Task Agent Self-Evolution
by Cheng Qian, Shihao Liang, Yujia Qin, Yining Ye, Xin Cong, Yankai Lin, Yesai Wu, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
First submitted to arxiv on: 25 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes Investigate-Consolidate-Exploit (ICE), a new strategy for enhancing the adaptability and flexibility of AI agents through inter-task self-evolution. Unlike existing methods focused on intra-task learning, ICE promotes the transfer of knowledge between tasks for genuine self-evolution, similar to human experience learning. The strategy involves dynamically investigating planning and execution trajectories, consolidating them into simplified workflows and pipelines, and exploiting them for improved task execution. The authors demonstrate ICE’s effectiveness on the XAgent framework, reducing API calls by as much as 80% and significantly decreasing the demand for the model’s capability. Specifically, when combined with GPT-3.5, ICE’s performance matches that of raw GPT-4 across various agent tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a new way to make AI agents smarter and more flexible. It’s called Investigate-Consolidate-Exploit (ICE), and it helps AI agents learn from doing different tasks. Right now, most AI agents are only good at one thing, but ICE helps them figure out how to do other things too. This is important because it makes the AI agents better at solving problems and making decisions on their own. The authors tested ICE with a special tool called GPT-3.5 and found that it worked just as well as a more advanced version of the same tool. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt
