将复杂任务拆解为独立子任务,提升长程智能体的执行鲁棒性与效率
Beyond Entangled Planning: Task-Decoupled Planning for Long-Horizon Agents
- 用监督器将任务分解为有向无环图,实现子目标解耦
- 在TravelPlanner等数据集上性能超越基线,令牌消耗降低82%
- 适合需要高可靠性的长周期任务规划场景
大型语言模型的进展使智能体能够自主执行复杂的长周期任务,但规划仍是可靠执行的主要瓶颈。现有方法分为两类:逐步规划(反应式但短视)和一次性规划(生成完整计划但对执行错误敏感)。两者均存在上下文纠缠问题,即需处理跨多个子任务的连续历史,导致认知负荷高,局部错误易传播,恢复成本高昂。为此,我们提出无需训练的任务解耦规划(TDP),通过监督器将任务分解为子目标的有向无环图。利用具有作用域上下文的规划器与执行器,TDP 将推理与重规划限制在当前活跃子任务内,防止错误传播,并能本地化纠正偏差而不影响整体流程。在TravelPlanner、ScienceWorld和HotpotQA上的实验表明,TDP优于强基线,同时将令牌消耗减少高达82%,证明子任务解耦能显著提升长周期智能体的鲁棒性与效率。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agents to autonomously execute complex, long-horizon tasks, yet planning remains a primary bottleneck for reliable task execution. Existing methods typically fall into two paradigms: step-wise planning, which is reactive but often short-sighted; and one-shot planning, which generates a complete plan upfront yet is brittle to execution errors. Crucially, both paradigms suffer from entangled contexts, where the agent must reason over a monolithic history spanning multiple sub-tasks. This entanglement increases cognitive load and lets local errors propagate across otherwise independent decisions, making recovery computationally expensive. To address this, we propose Task-Decoupled Planning (TDP), a training-free framework that replaces entangled reasoning with task decoupling. TDP decomposes tasks into a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of sub-goals via a Supervisor. Using a Planner and Executor with scoped contexts, TDP confines reasoning and replanning to the active sub-task. This isolation prevents error propagation and corrects deviations locally without disrupting the workflow. Results on TravelPlanner, ScienceWorld, and HotpotQA show that TDP outperforms strong baselines while reducing token consumption by up to 82%, demonstrating that sub-task decoupling improves both robustness and efficiency for long-horizon agents.
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