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ADaPT: As-Needed Decomposition and Planning with Language Models

Authors :
Prasad, Archiki
Koller, Alexander
Hartmann, Mareike
Clark, Peter
Sabharwal, Ashish
Bansal, Mohit
Khot, Tushar
Prasad, Archiki
Koller, Alexander
Hartmann, Mareike
Clark, Peter
Sabharwal, Ashish
Bansal, Mohit
Khot, Tushar
Publication Year :
2023

Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used for interactive decision-making tasks requiring planning and adapting to the environment. Recent works employ LLMs-as-agents in broadly two ways: iteratively determining the next action (iterative executors) or generating plans and executing sub-tasks using LLMs (plan-and-execute). However, these methods struggle with task complexity, as the inability to execute any sub-task may lead to task failure. To address these shortcomings, we introduce As-Needed Decomposition and Planning for complex Tasks (ADaPT), an approach that explicitly plans and decomposes complex sub-tasks as-needed, i.e., when the LLM is unable to execute them. ADaPT recursively decomposes sub-tasks to adapt to both task complexity and LLM capability. Our results demonstrate that ADaPT substantially outperforms established strong baselines, achieving success rates up to 28.3% higher in ALFWorld, 27% in WebShop, and 33% in TextCraft -- a novel compositional dataset that we introduce. Through extensive analysis, we illustrate the importance of multilevel decomposition and establish that ADaPT dynamically adjusts to the capabilities of the executor LLM as well as to task complexity.<br />Comment: NAACL 2024 (findings) camera-ready. Project Page: https://allenai.github.io/adaptllm

Details

Database :
OAIster
Publication Type :
Electronic Resource
Accession number :
edsoai.on1438497437
Document Type :
Electronic Resource