360∘REA: Towards A Reusable Experience Accumulation with 360∘ Assessment for Multi-Agent System

Shen Gao, Hao Li, Zhengliang Shi, Chengrui Huang, Quan Tu, Shuo Shang, Zhiliang Tian, Minlie Huang


Abstract
Large language model agents have demonstrated remarkable advancements across various complex tasks. Recent works focus on optimizing the agent team or employing self-reflection to iteratively solve complex tasks. Since these agents are all based on the same LLM, only conducting self-evaluation or removing underperforming agents does not substantively enhance the capability of the agents. We argue that a comprehensive evaluation and accumulating experience from evaluation feedback is an effective approach to improving system performance. In this paper, we propose Reusable Experience Accumulation with 360∘ Assessment (360∘REA), a hierarchical multi-agent framework inspired by corporate organizational practices. The framework employs a novel 360∘ performance assessment method for multi-perspective performance evaluation with fine-grained assessment. To enhance the capability of agents in addressing complex tasks, we introduce dual-level experience pool for agents to accumulate experience through fine-grained assessment. Extensive experiments on complex task datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of 360∘REA.
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2024.findings-acl.778
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024
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August
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2024
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Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting
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Lun-Wei Ku, Andre Martins, Vivek Srikumar
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Shen Gao, Hao Li, Zhengliang Shi, Chengrui Huang, Quan Tu, Shuo Shang, Zhiliang Tian, and Minlie Huang. 2024. 360∘REA: Towards A Reusable Experience Accumulation with 360∘ Assessment for Multi-Agent System. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics ACL 2024, pages 13149–13162, Bangkok, Thailand and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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