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CoMM: Collaborative Multi-Agent, Multi-Reasoning-Path Prompting for Complex Problem Solving

Pei‐Yu Chen, Shuai Zhang, Boran Han

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Abstract

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great ability in solving traditional natural language tasks and elementary reasoning tasks with appropriate prompting techniques.However, their ability is still limited in solving complicated science problems.In this work, we aim to push the upper bound of the reasoning capability of LLMs by proposing a collaborative multi-agent, multi-reasoning-path (CoMM) prompting framework.Specifically, we prompt LLMs to play different roles in a problem-solving team, and encourage different role-play agents to collaboratively solve the target task.In particular, we discover that applying different reasoning paths for different roles is an effective strategy to implement fewshot prompting approaches in the multi-agent scenarios.Empirical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed methods on two college-level science problems over competitive baselines.Our further analysis shows the necessity of prompting LLMs to play different roles or experts independently.

Topics & Concepts

Computer sciencePath (computing)Multi-agent systemArtificial intelligenceHuman–computer interactionDistributed computingComputer networkMulti-Agent Systems and NegotiationSemantic Web and OntologiesAI-based Problem Solving and Planning