用生物调控网络的模式设计更可靠的智能体系统。
Biological Motifs for Agentic Control
- 借鉴生物调控网络的五种模式,构建可组合的智能体设计范式。
- 提出智能体操作代数和认知拓扑,实现误差抑制与多智能体扩展预测。
- 适合研究智能体可靠性、系统安全与复杂系统建模的研究者。
大型语言模型从被动生成转向自主智能体,带来了可靠性、安全性与状态管理的重大挑战。当前智能体架构多为临时搭建,易出现幻觉传播、无限循环和提示注入攻击。本文提出,这些故障模式可通过系统生物学中长期研究的控制模体来分析,关键在于在类型接口与协调结构层面进行类比,而非直接复制生物机制。我们利用多项式函子与布线图,建立基因调控网络与智能体软件系统的类型接口对应关系。将五种生物模体映射为可组合的软件设计模式:一致前馈环用于噪声抑制,适应性免疫实现分层安全,线粒体信号支持资源治理,内共生实现神经符号融合,形态发生扩散用于空间协调。通过观察结构推导出类似克里普克的知识算子,证明了四个关于多智能体扩展的预测定理。核心贡献包括:(1) 智能体操作代数,一种带误差抑制边界保证的智能体组合类型语法;(2) 认知拓扑框架及四条定理(误差放大、顺序惩罚、并行加速、工具密度缩放),其定性预测与已发表的多智能体基准一致;(3) 从结构到发展的六层演化路径,基于自主学习框架与经验文献中的收敛代理。一个包含1,813个测试和116个示例的参考实现验证了其实用性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The transition of Large Language Models (LLMs) from passive generators to autonomous agents has introduced significant challenges in reliability, security, and state management. Current agentic architectures are often constructed ad-hoc, prone to hallucination cascades, infinite loops, and prompt injection attacks. This paper argues that many of these failure modes can be analyzed using control motifs long studied in systems biology, provided the comparison is made at the level of typed interfaces and coordination structure rather than literal biological mechanism. We develop a typed interface correspondence between Gene Regulatory Networks and agentic software systems using polynomial functors and wiring diagrams. Five biological motifs are mapped to composable software design patterns: Coherent Feed-Forward Loops for noise suppression, Adaptive Immunity for layered security, Mitochondrial Signaling for resource governance, Endosymbiosis for neuro-symbolic integration, and Morphogen Diffusion for spatially varying coordination. An epistemic topology layer derives Kripke-style knowledge operators from the wiring diagram's observation structure and proves four predictive theorems for multi-agent scaling. The core contributions are: (1) the Agentic Operad, a typed syntax for agent composition with provable error suppression bounds for feed-forward topologies; (2) an epistemic topology with four theorems (error amplification, sequential penalty, parallel acceleration, and tool density scaling) whose qualitative predictions are consistent with published multi-agent benchmarks; and (3) a six-layer progression from structure through development, grounded in autonomous learning frameworks and convergence proxies from the empirical literature. A reference implementation with 1,813 tests and 116 examples illustrates practical feasibility.
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