ReConcile: Round-Table Conference Improves Reasoning via Consensus among Diverse LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.13007v3
• Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:34:27 GMT
• Title: ReConcile: Round-Table Conference Improves Reasoning via Consensus among Diverse LLMs
• Authors: Justin Chih-Yao Chen, Swarnadeep Saha, Mohit Bansal,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) still struggle with natural language reasoning tasks. Motivated by the society of minds, we propose ReConcile. A multi-model multi-agent framework designed as a round table conference among diverse LLM agents.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) still struggle with natural language reasoning tasks. Motivated by the society of minds (Minsky, 1988), we propose ReConcile, a multi-model multi-agent framework designed as a round table conference among diverse LLM agents. ReConcile enhances collaborative reasoning between LLM agents via multiple rounds of discussion, learning to convince other agents to improve their answers, and employing a confidence-weighted voting mechanism that leads to a better consensus. In each round, ReConcile initiates discussion between agents via a 'discussion prompt' that consists of (a) grouped answers and explanations generated by each agent in the previous round, (b) their confidence scores, and (c) demonstrations of answer-rectifying human explanations, used for convincing other agents. Experiments on seven benchmarks demonstrate that ReConcile significantly improves LLMs' reasoning -- both individually and as a team -- surpassing prior single-agent and multi-agent baselines by up to 11.4% and even outperforming GPT-4 on three datasets. ReConcile also flexibly incorporates different combinations of agents, including API-based, open-source, and domain-specific models, leading to an 8% improvement on MATH. Finally, we analyze the individual components of ReConcile, demonstrating that the diversity originating from different models is critical to its superior performance. Code: https://github.com/dinobby/ReConcile

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