Princeton University: Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents
CoALA is a framework that repurposes cognitive architecture concepts from symbolic AI to enhance large language models, aiming to improve reasoning, grounding, learning, and decision-making in language agents.
Princeton University: Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents
Summary of https://www.researchgate.net/publication/373715148_Cognitive_Architectures_for_Language_Agents
This research paper proposes a framework called CoALA (Cognitive Architectures for Language Agents) for building more sophisticated language agents.
CoALA draws parallels between Large Language Models (LLMs) and production systems from symbolic AI, suggesting that control flow mechanisms used in cognitive architectures can be applied to LLMs to improve reasoning, grounding, learning, and decision-making.
The authors present CoALA as a blueprint for organizing existing methods and guiding future development of more capable language agents, highlighting key components like memory modules and various action types.
The paper examines several existing language agents through the lens of CoALA and proposes actionable directions for future research. Finally, the authors address some conceptual questions regarding the boundaries of agents and their environments.
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