用动态协作图提升语言智能体团队效率,减少冗余与错误。
Improving the Efficiency of Language Agent Teams with Adaptive Task Graphs

- 智能体共建并维护可演化任务图,实时跟踪子任务依赖与进度。
- 相比传统方法,令牌消耗、耗时和通信量降低,错误率显著下降。
- 适合需要高效协同的复杂任务场景,如多智能体系统设计。
大型语言模型(LLMs)正越来越多地以团队形式部署,但现有协调方法常陷入两个极端:高度结构化的方法依赖预先设定的角色、流水线或任务分解;而完全无结构的团队虽具灵活性,却易导致错误传播、代理冲突和资源浪费(以时间、令牌或文件操作衡量)。我们提出Language Agent Teams for Task Evolution(LATTE),受分布式系统启发,使处理器在部分可观测性和通信约束下协作。在LATTE中,一组智能体共同构建并维护一个共享的、持续演化的协调图,编码子任务依赖关系、个体分配及当前子任务进展状态。该协议在保持一致性的同时,赋予智能体动态分配工作、自适应协调和发现新任务的能力。在多种协作任务及不同基础模型上,我们证明LATTE能显著降低令牌使用量、墙钟时间、通信开销和协调失败率(如文件冲突与重复输出),同时在准确率上达到或超过标准设计,包括MetaGPT、去中心化团队、自上而下的领导-工人架构以及静态分解方案。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in teams, yet existing coordination approaches often occupy two extremes. Highly structured methods rely on fixed roles, pipelines, or task decompositions assigned a priori. In contrast, fully unstructured teams enable adaptability and exploration but suffer from inefficiencies such as error propagation, inter-agent conflicts, and wasted resources (measured in time, tokens, or file operations). We introduce Language Agent Teams for Task Evolution (LATTE), a framework for coordinating LLM teams inspired by distributed systems, where processors must operate under partial observability and communication constraints. In LATTE, a team of agents collaboratively construct and maintain a shared, evolving coordination graph which encodes sub-task dependencies, individual agent assignment, and the current state of sub-task progress. This protocol maintains consistency while empowering agents to dynamically allocate work, adapt coordination, and discover new tasks. Across multiple collaborative tasks and a variety of base models, we demonstrate how LATTE reduces token usage, wall-clock time, communication, and coordination failures (e.g. file conflicts and redundant outputs) while matching or exceeding the accuracy of standard designs including MetaGPT, decentralized teams, top-down Leader-Worker hierarchies, and static decompositions.
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