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title = "{ACT}: Knowledgeable Agents to Design and Perform Complex Tasks",
author = "Nakatsuji, Makoto and
Tateishi, Shuhei and
Fujiwara, Yasuhiro and
Matsumoto, Ayaka and
Nomoto, Narichika and
Sato, Yoshihide",
editor = "Che, Wanxiang and
Nabende, Joyce and
Shutova, Ekaterina and
Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
month = jul,
year = "2025",
address = "Vienna, Austria",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.823/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.823",
pages = "16831--16861",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-251-0",
abstract = "Large language models enhance collaborative task execution in multi-agent systems. Current studies break complex task into manageable tasks, but agents lack understanding of the overall task and how others approach their tasks, hindering synergy and integration.We propose a method called knowledgeable \textbf{ \textit{A}}gents to design and perform \textbf{ \textit{C}}omplex \textbf{ \textit{T}}asks (ACT), where: (1) Agents independently manage their knowledge and tasks while collaboratively design the complex task into a more comprehensible form. In parallel, each agent also acquires knowledge of others, defined as a structured description of how other agents approach their tasks based on the agent{'}s own task resolution. (2) Each agent updates its knowledge and refines its task through interactions with others. By referencing structured knowledge, they effectively integrate their tasks to collaboratively solve the complex task.Three evaluations including creative writing and tool utilization, show that ACT accurately outperforms existing methods in solving complex tasks."
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%T ACT: Knowledgeable Agents to Design and Perform Complex Tasks
%A Nakatsuji, Makoto
%A Tateishi, Shuhei
%A Fujiwara, Yasuhiro
%A Matsumoto, Ayaka
%A Nomoto, Narichika
%A Sato, Yoshihide
%Y Che, Wanxiang
%Y Nabende, Joyce
%Y Shutova, Ekaterina
%Y Pilehvar, Mohammad Taher
%S Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
%D 2025
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Vienna, Austria
%@ 979-8-89176-251-0
%F nakatsuji-etal-2025-act
%X Large language models enhance collaborative task execution in multi-agent systems. Current studies break complex task into manageable tasks, but agents lack understanding of the overall task and how others approach their tasks, hindering synergy and integration.We propose a method called knowledgeable Agents to design and perform Complex Tasks (ACT), where: (1) Agents independently manage their knowledge and tasks while collaboratively design the complex task into a more comprehensible form. In parallel, each agent also acquires knowledge of others, defined as a structured description of how other agents approach their tasks based on the agent’s own task resolution. (2) Each agent updates its knowledge and refines its task through interactions with others. By referencing structured knowledge, they effectively integrate their tasks to collaboratively solve the complex task.Three evaluations including creative writing and tool utilization, show that ACT accurately outperforms existing methods in solving complex tasks.
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%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.acl-long.823
%P 16831-16861
Markdown (Informal)
[ACT: Knowledgeable Agents to Design and Perform Complex Tasks](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.823/) (Nakatsuji et al., ACL 2025)
ACL
- Makoto Nakatsuji, Shuhei Tateishi, Yasuhiro Fujiwara, Ayaka Matsumoto, Narichika Nomoto, and Yoshihide Sato. 2025. ACT: Knowledgeable Agents to Design and Perform Complex Tasks. In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 16831–16861, Vienna, Austria. Association for Computational Linguistics.