RestGPT: Connecting Large Language Models with Real-World RESTful APIs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.06624v2
• Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 02:55:36 GMT
• Title: RestGPT: Connecting Large Language Models with Real-World RESTful APIs
• Authors: Yifan Song, Weimin Xiong, Dawei Zhu, Wenhao Wu, Han Qian, Mingbo Song, Hailiang Huang, Cheng Li, Ke Wang, Rong Yao, Ye Tian, Sujian Li
• Abstract summary: A tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in tackling a broad range of tasks. To address the practical challenges of tackling complex instructions, we propose RestGPT, which exploits the power of robustness. To fully evaluate RestGPT, we propose RestBench, a high-quality benchmark which consists of two real-world scenarios and human-annotated instructions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Tool-augmented large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in tackling a broad range of tasks. However, existing methods are mainly restricted to specifically designed tools and fail to fulfill complex instructions, having great limitations when confronted with real-world scenarios. In this paper, we explore a more realistic scenario by connecting LLMs with RESTful APIs, which adhere to the widely adopted REST software architectural style for web service development. To address the practical challenges of tackling complex instructions, we propose RestGPT, which exploits the power of LLMs and conducts a coarse-to-fine online planning mechanism to enhance the abilities of task decomposition and API selection. RestGPT also contains an API executor tailored for calling RESTful APIs, which can meticulously formulate parameters and parse API responses. To fully evaluate the performance of RestGPT, we propose RestBench, a high-quality benchmark which consists of two real-world scenarios and human-annotated instructions with gold solution paths. Experiments show that RestGPT is able to achieve impressive results in complex tasks and has strong robustness, which paves a new way towards AGI. RestGPT and RestBench is publicly available at https://restgpt.github.io/.

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