让多智能体系统在执行中动态调整协作流程,提升复杂任务完成率。
EvoMAS: Learning Execution-Time Workflows for Multi-Agent Systems

- 基于任务状态动态构建分阶段协作流程,实时调整智能体分工。
- 在GAIA、HLE等数据集上性能超越单智能体与现有自动化方法。
- 适合长时序、目标变化的复杂任务,尤其终端奖励极稀疏时优势明显。
基于大语言模型的多智能体系统在复杂任务中展现出强大潜力,通过智能体专业化、工具使用和协作推理实现高效解题。然而,现有自动化设计方法多采用一次性静态流程:任务前优化并固定协作模式,无法适应长时序任务中子目标、中间证据与信息需求随阶段演化的特性。本文提出EvoMAS框架,实现执行时动态构建多智能体工作流。该框架将工作流构建建模为沿单一任务轨迹的元级序列决策问题,在每阶段通过规划-评估-更新管道显式构造任务状态,并利用学习到的流程适配器从固定候选智能体池中生成阶段专属的分层工作流。适配器以稀疏可验证的任务终局成功为主要监督信号,通过策略梯度训练;评估器提供的过程奖励则在极稀疏奖励环境下单独分析。在GAIA、HLE和DeepResearcher上的实验表明,EvoMAS优于单智能体基线及近期自动化多智能体流程设计方法。分析显示,显式任务状态构建与学习型流程适配具有互补作用;额外结果表明,过程奖励在终局成功极度稀疏时最有效;定性案例进一步说明EvoMAS能随任务状态演化动态调整智能体协同方式。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems have shown strong potential on complex tasks through agent specialization, tool use, and collaborative reasoning. However, most automated multi-agent system design methods still follow a one-shot paradigm: a workflow is optimized or selected before execution and then reused unchanged throughout the task. This static coordination strategy is ill-suited for long-horizon tasks whose subgoals, intermediate evidence, and information needs evolve over multiple execution stages. We propose EvoMAS, a framework for execution-time multi-agent workflow construction. EvoMAS formulates workflow construction as a meta-level sequential decision problem along a single task trajectory. At each stage, it constructs an explicit task state through a Planner-Evaluator-Updater pipeline and uses a learned Workflow Adapter to instantiate a stage-specific layered workflow from a fixed pool of candidate agents. The adapter is trained with policy gradients using sparse, verifiable terminal task success as the main supervision signal, while evaluator-based process reward is analyzed separately under very-hard sparse-reward settings. Experiments on GAIA, HLE, and DeepResearcher show that EvoMAS outperforms single-agent baselines and recent automated multi-agent workflow design methods. Our analyses further show that explicit task-state construction and learned workflow adaptation provide complementary benefits. Additional results indicate that process reward is most useful when terminal success is extremely sparse, and qualitative case studies illustrate that EvoMAS adapts agent coordination as the task state evolves.
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