CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Scale Language Model Society

Abstract

The rapid advancement of conversational and chat-based language models has led to remarkable progress in complex task-solving. However, their success heavily relies on human input to guide the conversation, which can be challenging and time-consuming. This paper explores the potential of building scalable techniques to facilitate autonomous cooperation among communicative agents and provide insight into their “cognitive” processes. To address the challenges of achieving autonomous cooperation, we propose a novel communicative agent framework named role-playing. Our approach involves using inception prompting to guide chat agents toward task completion while maintaining consistency with human intentions. We showcase how role-playing can be used to generate conversational data for studying the behaviors and capabilities of chat agents, providing a valuable resource for investigating conversational language models. Our contributions include introducing a novel communicative agent framework, offering a scalable approach for studying the cooperative behaviors and capabilities of multi-agent systems, and open-sourcing our library to support research on communicative agents and beyond.

Type
Publication
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud
Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud
PhD Student

Hasan is an Electrical and Computer Engineering Ph.D. student in Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL) Group in the Artificial Intelligence Initiative (AII) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the supervision of Professor Bernard Ghanem.