Summary of Smoa: Improving Multi-agent Large Language Models with Sparse Mixture-of-agents, by Dawei Li et al.
SMoA: Improving Multi-agent Large Language Models with Sparse Mixture-of-Agents
by Dawei Li, Zhen Tan, Peijia Qian, Yifan Li, Kumar Satvik Chaudhary, Lijie Hu, Jiayi Shen
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Multiagent Systems (cs.MA)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed sparse mixture-of-agents (SMoA) framework aims to enhance the performance and diversity of multi-agent Large Language Models (LLMs). By introducing Response Selection and Early Stopping mechanisms, SMoA reduces information flows among individual LLM agents, achieving a balance between efficiency and performance. The framework also assigns distinct role descriptions to each agent, fostering diverse thinking. Experimental results on reasoning, alignment, and fairness benchmarks show that SMoA achieves comparable performance to traditional mixture-of-agents approaches at significantly lower computational costs. Additionally, SMoA demonstrates improved stability, scalability, and potential for hyper-parameter optimization. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a new way to make multi-agent language models work better together. Instead of all the agents talking to each other all the time, they only talk when it’s really important. This helps them be more efficient and come up with different ideas. The researchers also give each agent its own special job, which makes the whole system more diverse and creative. They tested this new approach on some tasks and found that it works just as well as other methods, but takes less computer power to do. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Early stopping » Optimization
