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title = "Reverse Chain: A Generic-Rule for {LLM}s to Master Multi-{API} Planning",
author = "Zhang, Yinger and
Cai, Hui and
Song, Xierui and
Chen, Yicheng and
Sun, Rui and
Zheng, Jing",
editor = "Duh, Kevin and
Gomez, Helena and
Bethard, Steven",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024",
month = jun,
year = "2024",
address = "Mexico City, Mexico",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-naacl.22",
pages = "302--325",
abstract = "While enabling large language models to implement function calling (known as APIs) can greatly enhance the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), function calling is still a challenging task due to the complicated relations between different APIs, especially in a context-learning setting without fine-tuning. This paper introduces {``}Reverse Chain{''}, a controllable, target-driven approach designed to empower LLMs with the capability to operate external APIs only via prompts. Recognizing that most LLMs have limited tool-use capabilities, Reverse Chain limits LLMs to executing simple tasks, e.g., API Selection and Argument Completion. Furthermore, to manage a controllable multi-function calling, Reverse Chain adopts a generic rule-based on a backward reasoning process. This rule determines when to do API selection or Argument completion. To evaluate the multi-tool-use capability of LLMs, we have released a compositional multi-tool task dataset, available at https://github.com/zhangyingerjelly/reverse-chain. Extensive numerical experiments validate the remarkable proficiency of Reverse Chain in managing multiple API calls.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Reverse Chain: A Generic-Rule for LLMs to Master Multi-API Planning
%A Zhang, Yinger
%A Cai, Hui
%A Song, Xierui
%A Chen, Yicheng
%A Sun, Rui
%A Zheng, Jing
%Y Duh, Kevin
%Y Gomez, Helena
%Y Bethard, Steven
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2024
%D 2024
%8 June
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Mexico City, Mexico
%F zhang-etal-2024-reverse
%X While enabling large language models to implement function calling (known as APIs) can greatly enhance the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), function calling is still a challenging task due to the complicated relations between different APIs, especially in a context-learning setting without fine-tuning. This paper introduces “Reverse Chain”, a controllable, target-driven approach designed to empower LLMs with the capability to operate external APIs only via prompts. Recognizing that most LLMs have limited tool-use capabilities, Reverse Chain limits LLMs to executing simple tasks, e.g., API Selection and Argument Completion. Furthermore, to manage a controllable multi-function calling, Reverse Chain adopts a generic rule-based on a backward reasoning process. This rule determines when to do API selection or Argument completion. To evaluate the multi-tool-use capability of LLMs, we have released a compositional multi-tool task dataset, available at https://github.com/zhangyingerjelly/reverse-chain. Extensive numerical experiments validate the remarkable proficiency of Reverse Chain in managing multiple API calls.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-naacl.22
%P 302-325
Markdown (Informal)
[Reverse Chain: A Generic-Rule for LLMs to Master Multi-API Planning](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-naacl.22) (Zhang et al., Findings 2024)
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