综述智能体大模型研究,揭示其推理、行动与协作三大能力及应用前景。
Agentic Large Language Models, a survey

- 按推理、行动、交互三类组织文献,系统梳理智能体大模型发展
- 多领域应用潜力显著,如医疗诊断、金融分析与科研辅助
- 支持动态学习,解决训练数据不足问题,但需警惕真实世界风险
背景:智能体大语言模型(agentic LLMs)引发广泛关注,即能够自主推理、行动与交互的大模型。目标:综述该领域的研究成果并提出研究议程。方法:将智能体大模型分为三类:(1)推理与反思,提升决策能力;(2)工具与机器人使用,实现实用助手功能;(3)多智能体系统,促进协作与社会行为模拟。结果表明,三类研究相互促进:检索支持工具调用,反思增强协作,推理贯穿所有类别。应用场景包括医疗诊断、物流优化与金融市场分析;自反思智能体可参与科研过程。此外,推理时的行为可生成新训练样本,缓解大模型训练数据枯竭问题。然而,现实世界中的行动带来安全、责任与隐私等挑战,但整体对社会有潜在益处。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Background: There is great interest in agentic LLMs, large language models that act as agents. Objectives: We review the growing body of work in this area and provide a research agenda. Methods: Agentic LLMs are LLMs that (1) reason, (2) act, and (3) interact. We organize the literature according to these three categories. Results: The research in the first category focuses on reasoning, reflection, and retrieval, aiming to improve decision making; the second category focuses on action models, robots, and tools, aiming for agents that act as useful assistants; the third category focuses on multi-agent systems, aiming for collaborative task solving and simulating interaction to study emergent social behavior. We find that works mutually benefit from results in other categories: retrieval enables tool use, reflection improves multi-agent collaboration, and reasoning benefits all categories. Conclusions: We discuss applications of agentic LLMs and provide an agenda for further research. Important applications are in medical diagnosis, logistics and financial market analysis. Meanwhile, self-reflective agents playing roles and interacting with one another augment the process of scientific research itself. Further, agentic LLMs provide a solution for the problem of LLMs running out of training data: inference-time behavior generates new training states, such that LLMs can keep learning without needing ever larger datasets. We note that there is risk associated with LLM assistants taking action in the real world-safety, liability and security are open problems-while agentic LLMs are also likely to benefit society.
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