EMNLP 2024finding16 citations

Large Language Model-based Human-Agent Collaboration for Complex Task Solving

Xueyang Feng, Zhi-Yuan Chen, Yujia Qin, Yankai Lin, Xu Chen, Zhiyuan Liu, Ji-Rong Wen

Abstract

In recent developments within the research community, the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) in creating fully autonomous agents has garnered significant interest. Despite this, LLM-based agents frequently demonstrate notable shortcomings in adjusting to dynamic environments and fully grasping human needs. In this work, we introduce the problem of LLM-based human-agent collaboration for complex task-solving, exploring their synergistic potential. To tackle the problem, we propose a Reinforcement Learning-based Human-Agent Collaboration method, ReHAC, which trains a policy model designed to determine the most opportune stages for human intervention within the task-solving process. We conduct experiments under real and simulated human-agent collaboration scenarios. Experimental results demonstrate that the synergistic efforts of humans and LLM-based agents significantly improve performance in complex tasks, primarily through well-planned, limited human intervention. Datasets and code are available at: https://github.com/XueyangFeng/ReHAC/.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{feng-etal-2024-large,
    title = "Large Language Model-based Human-Agent Collaboration for Complex Task Solving",
    author = "Feng, Xueyang  and
      Chen, Zhi-Yuan  and
      Qin, Yujia  and
      Lin, Yankai  and
      Chen, Xu  and
      Liu, Zhiyuan  and
      Wen, Ji-Rong",
    editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Bansal, Mohit  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung",
    booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.72/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.72",
    pages = "1336--1357"
}