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A survey on large language model based autonomous agents

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  • Lei Wang1,
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  • Zhiyuan Chen1,
  • Jiakai Tang1,
  • Xu Chen1,
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Abstract

Autonomous agents have long been a research focus in academic and industry communities. Previous research often focuses on training agents with limited knowledge within isolated environments, which diverges significantly from human learning processes, and makes the agents hard to achieve human-like decisions. Recently, through the acquisition of vast amounts of Web knowledge, large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in human-level intelligence, leading to a surge in research on LLM-based autonomous agents. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of these studies, delivering a systematic review of LLM-based autonomous agents from a holistic perspective. We first discuss the construction of LLM-based autonomous agents, proposing a unified framework that encompasses much of previous work. Then, we present a overview of the diverse applications of LLM-based autonomous agents in social science, natural science, and engineering. Finally, we delve into the evaluation strategies commonly used for LLM-based autonomous agents. Based on the previous studies, we also present several challenges and future directions in this field.

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Lei Wang is a PhD candidate at Renmin University of China, China. His research focuses on recommender systems and agent-based large language models.

Chen Ma is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at Renmin University of China, China. His research interests include recommender system, agent based on large language model.

Xueyang Feng is currently studying for a PhD degree at Renmin University of China, China. His research interests include recommender system, agent based on large language model.

Zeyu Zhang is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at Renmin University of China, China. His research interests include recommender system, causal inference, agent based on large language model.

Hao Yang is currently studying for a PhD degree at Renmin University of China, China. His research interests include recommender system, causal inference.

Jingsen Zhang is currently studying for a PhD degree at Renmin University of China, China. His research interests include recommender system.

Zhiyuan Chen is pursuing his PhD in Gaoling school of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China, China. His research mainly focuses on language model reasoning and agent based on large language model.

Jiakai Tang is currently pursuing a Master’s degree at Renmin University of China, China. His research interests include recommender system.

Xu Chen obtained his PhD degree from Tsinghua University, China. Before joining Renmin University of China, he was a postdoc researcher at University College London, UK. In the period from March to September of 2017, he was studying at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA as a visiting scholar. His research mainly focuses on the recommender system, reinforcement learning, and causal inference.

Yankai Lin received his BE and PhD degrees from Tsinghua University, China in 2014 and 2019, respectively. After that, he worked as a senior researcher in Tencent WeChat, and joined Renmin University of China, China in 2022 as a tenure-track assistant professor. His main research interests are pretrained models and natural language processing.

Wayne Xin Zhao received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Peking University, China in 2014. His research interests include data mining, natural language processing and information retrieval in general. The main goal is to study how to organize, analyze and mine user generated data for improving the service of real-world applications.

Zhewei Wei received his PhD degree in Computer Science and Engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China. He did postdoctoral research in Aarhus University, Denmark from 2012 to 2014, and joined Renmin University of China, China in 2014.

Jirong Wen is a full professor, the executive dean of Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, and the dean of School of Information at Renmin University of China, China. He has been working in the big data and AI areas for many years, and publishing extensively on prestigious international conferences and journals.

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