Enhancing LLM-Based Agents via Global Planning and Hierarchical Execution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16563v3
• Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 13:30:20 GMT
• Title: Enhancing LLM-Based Agents via Global Planning and Hierarchical Execution
• Authors: Junjie Chen, Haitao Li, Jingli Yang, Yiqun Liu, Qingyao Ai,
• Abstract summary: GoalAct is a novel agent framework that introduces a continuously updated global planning mechanism and integrates a hierarchical execution strategy.<n>GoalAct decomposes task execution into high-level skills, including searching, coding, writing and more.<n>We evaluate GoalAct on LegalAgentBench, a benchmark with multiple types of legal tasks that require the use of multiple types of tools.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Intelligent agent systems based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great potential in real-world applications. However, existing agent frameworks still face critical limitations in task planning and execution, restricting their effectiveness and generalizability. Specifically, current planning methods often lack clear global goals, leading agents to get stuck in local branches, or produce non-executable plans. Meanwhile, existing execution mechanisms struggle to balance complexity and stability, and their limited action space restricts their ability to handle diverse real-world tasks. To address these limitations, we propose GoalAct, a novel agent framework that introduces a continuously updated global planning mechanism and integrates a hierarchical execution strategy. GoalAct decomposes task execution into high-level skills, including searching, coding, writing and more, thereby reducing planning complexity while enhancing the agents' adaptability across diverse task scenarios. We evaluate GoalAct on LegalAgentBench, a benchmark with multiple types of legal tasks that require the use of multiple types of tools. Experimental results demonstrate that GoalAct achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, with an average improvement of 12.22% in success rate. These findings highlight GoalAct's potential to drive the development of more advanced intelligent agent systems, making them more effective across complex real-world applications. Our code can be found at https://github.com/cjj826/GoalAct.

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