Chain of Tools: Large Language Model is an Automatic Multi-tool Learner

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16533v1
• Date: Sun, 26 May 2024 11:40:58 GMT
• Title: Chain of Tools: Large Language Model is an Automatic Multi-tool Learner
• Authors: Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao, Xiuyi Chen, Yue Feng, Lingyong Yan, Haibo Shi, Dawei Yin, Zhumin Chen, Suzan Verberne, Zhaochun Ren,
• Abstract summary: Automatic Tool Chain (ATC) is a framework that enables the large language models (LLMs) to act as a multi-tool user. To scale up the scope of the tools, we next propose a black-box probing method. For a comprehensive evaluation, we build a challenging benchmark named ToolFlow.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools has emerged as a promising approach to extend their utility, empowering them to solve practical tasks. Existing work typically empowers LLMs as tool users with a manually designed workflow, where the LLM plans a series of tools in a step-by-step manner, and sequentially executes each tool to obtain intermediate results until deriving the final answer. However, they suffer from two challenges in realistic scenarios: (1) The handcrafted control flow is often ad-hoc and constraints the LLM to local planning; (2) The LLM is instructed to use only manually demonstrated tools or well-trained Python functions, which limits its generalization to new tools. In this work, we first propose Automatic Tool Chain (ATC), a framework that enables the LLM to act as a multi-tool user, which directly utilizes a chain of tools through programming. To scale up the scope of the tools, we next propose a black-box probing method. This further empowers the LLM as a tool learner that can actively discover and document tool usages, teaching themselves to properly master new tools. For a comprehensive evaluation, we build a challenging benchmark named ToolFlow, which diverges from previous benchmarks by its long-term planning scenarios and complex toolset. Experiments on both existing datasets and ToolFlow illustrate the superiority of our framework. Analysis on different settings also validates the effectiveness and the utility of our black-box probing algorithm.

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