让多智能体系统跨领域工作更灵活,只需换工人不用重造大脑。
OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation

- 分层模块化设计,规划与执行分离,支持灵活替换工人。
- 在GAIA基准上达到69.70%准确率,超越商业模型2.34%。
- 用强化学习优化通用规划器,32B模型性能逼近GPT-4o。
基于大语言模型的多智能体系统在自动化真实任务方面展现出潜力,但因领域特定性难以跨域迁移。现有方法存在两大缺陷:新领域应用时需整体架构重改和全量重新训练。本文提出Workforce框架,采用分层模块化结构,将战略规划与专用执行解耦:(i) 通用规划器负责任务分解,(ii) 协调器管理子任务,(iii) 领域特化的工作代理人具备工具调用能力。该设计实现推理与训练阶段的跨域可迁移性——推理时仅需增删工作代理人即可适配新领域;训练时引入优化的劳动力学习(OWL),通过真实世界反馈的强化学习优化通用规划器,提升跨域泛化能力。我们在覆盖多领域真实任务的GAIA基准上验证该方法,实验结果表明Workforce达到开源模型最优性能(69.70%),优于OpenAI Deep Research 2.34%。尤为显著的是,经OWL训练的32B模型取得52.73%准确率(+16.37%),在复杂任务上表现接近GPT-4o。本工作为通用人工智能助手的规模化泛化奠定了基础。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems show promise for automating real-world tasks but struggle to transfer across domains due to their domain-specific nature. Current approaches face two critical shortcomings: they require complete architectural redesign and full retraining of all components when applied to new domains. We introduce Workforce, a hierarchical multi-agent framework that decouples strategic planning from specialized execution through a modular architecture comprising: (i) a domain-agnostic Planner for task decomposition, (ii) a Coordinator for subtask management, and (iii) specialized Workers with domain-specific tool-calling capabilities. This decoupling enables cross-domain transferability during both inference and training phases: During inference, Workforce seamlessly adapts to new domains by adding or modifying worker agents; For training, we introduce Optimized Workforce Learning (OWL), which improves generalization across domains by optimizing a domain-agnostic planner with reinforcement learning from real-world feedback. To validate our approach, we evaluate Workforce on the GAIA benchmark, covering various realistic, multi-domain agentic tasks. Experimental results demonstrate Workforce achieves open-source state-of-the-art performance (69.70%), outperforming commercial systems like OpenAI's Deep Research by 2.34%. More notably, our OWL-trained 32B model achieves 52.73% accuracy (+16.37%) and demonstrates performance comparable to GPT-4o on challenging tasks. To summarize, by enabling scalable generalization and modular domain transfer, our work establishes a foundation for the next generation of general-purpose AI assistants.
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