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Understanding the Planning of LLM Agents (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: This survey sorts how language models plan for autonomous agents into five families: breaking tasks into steps, choosing among plans, adding outside tools, checking its own work, and remembering past experience. It compares each approach and lays out the field's open problems.

Abstract · Understanding the planning of LLM agents: A survey

As Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant intelligence, the progress to leverage LLMs as planning modules of autonomous agents has attracted more attention. This survey provides the first systematic view of LLM-based agents planning, covering recent works aiming to improve planning ability. We provide a taxonomy of existing works on LLM-Agent planning, which can be categorized into Task Decomposition, Plan Selection, External Module, Reflection and Memory. Comprehensive analyses are conducted for each direction, and further challenges for the field of research are discussed.

Xu Huang, Weiwen Liu, Xiaolong Chen, Xingmei Wang, Hao Wang, Defu Lian, Yasheng Wang, Ruiming Tang, Enhong Chen
arXiv:2402.02716 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG · submitted Feb 5, 2024
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