AutoFlow: Automated Workflow Generation for Large Language Model Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12821v1
• Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2024 21:05:02 GMT
• Title: AutoFlow: Automated Workflow Generation for Large Language Model Agents
• Authors: Zelong Li, Shuyuan Xu, Kai Mei, Wenyue Hua, Balaji Rama, Om Raheja, Hao Wang, He Zhu, Yongfeng Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant progress in understanding complex natural language. To make sure LLM Agents follow an effective and reliable procedure to solve the given task, manually designed are usually used. We propose AutoFlow, a framework designed to automatically generate for agents to solve complex tasks.
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• Abstract: Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant progress in understanding complex natural language. One important application of LLM is LLM-based AI Agent, which leverages the ability of LLM as well as external tools for complex-task solving. To make sure LLM Agents follow an effective and reliable procedure to solve the given task, manually designed workflows are usually used to guide the working mechanism of agents. However, manually designing the workflows requires considerable efforts and domain knowledge, making it difficult to develop and deploy agents on massive scales. To address these issues, we propose AutoFlow, a framework designed to automatically generate workflows for agents to solve complex tasks. AutoFlow takes natural language program as the format of agent workflow and employs a workflow optimization procedure to iteratively optimize the workflow quality. Besides, this work offers two workflow generation methods: fine-tuning-based and in-context-based methods, making the AutoFlow framework applicable to both open-source and closed-source LLMs. Experimental results show that our framework can produce robust and reliable agent workflows. We believe that the automatic generation and interpretation of workflows in natural language represent a promising paradigm for solving complex tasks, particularly with the rapid development of LLMs. The source code of this work is available at https://github.com/agiresearch/AutoFlow.

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