VAValentinA23·Oct 12, 2024
>People really don't understand how much better LLM swarms get with more agents. I never hit a point of diminishing returns on text quality
Could you elaborate please ?
One use for swarms is to use multiple agents/prompts in place of one single agent with one long prompt in order to increase performance by splitting one big task into many. It is very time consuming though, as it requires experimenting to determine how best to divide one task into subtasks, including writing code to parse and sanitize each task output and plug it back into the rest of the agent graph.
Dspy [1] seems to target this problem space but last time I checked it only focused on single prompt optimization (by selecting which few shots examples lead to the best prompt performance for instance), but even though I have seen papers on the subject, I have yet to find a
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framework that tackles the problem of agent graph optimization although research on this topic has been done [2][3][4]
[1]DSPy: The framework for programming—not prompting—foundation models: https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy
[2]TextGrad: Automatic 'Differentiation' via Text -- using large language models to backpropagate textual gradients: https://github.com/zou-group/textgrad
[3]What's the Magic Word? A Control Theory of LLM Prompting: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04444
[4]Language Agents as Optimizable Graphs: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.16823