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Qianshuo Ye
dblp:409/0187
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Multi-agent systems · 56% Reinforcement learning · 28% Language models and text generation · 17% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Multi-agent systems › agent architecture
hierarchical multi-agent framework |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Multi-agent systems
LLM-based multi-agent systems |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Machine learning › Reinforcement learning
multi-agent reinforcement learning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
LLM agents |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › LLM agents › tool use
tool-calling agents |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
reinforcement learning · 0.9modular architecture · 0.9hierarchical planning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | OWL: Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task AutomationabstractLarge Language Model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems show promise for automating real-world tasks but struggle to transfer across domains due to their domain-specific nature.
Current approaches face two critical shortcomings: they require complete architectural redesign and full retraining of all components when applied to new domains.
We introduce **Workforce**, a hierarchical multi-agent framework that decouples strategic planning from specialized execution through a modular architecture comprising:
*(i)* a *domain-agnostic* **Planner** for task decomposition,
*(ii)* a **Coordinator** for subtask management, and
*(iii)* specialized **Workers** with *domain-specific* tool-calling capabilities.
This decoupling enables cross-domain transferability during both inference and training phases:
During inference, Workforce seamlessly adapts to new domains by adding or modifying worker agents;
For training, we introduce **Optimized Workforce Learning (OWL)**, which improves generalization across domains by optimizing a domain-agnostic planner with reinforcement learning from real-world feedback.
To validate our approach, we evaluate Workforce on the GAIA benchmark, covering various realistic, multi-domain agentic tasks.
Experimental results demonstrate Workforce achieves open-source state-of-the-art performance (**69.70%**), outperforming commercial systems like OpenAI's Deep Research by **2.34%**.
More notably, our OWL-trained 32B model achieves **52.73%** accuracy (**+16.37%**) and demonstrates performance comparable to GPT-4o on challenging tasks.
To summarize, by enabling scalable generalization and modular domain transfer, our work establishes a foundation for the next generation of general-purpose AI assistants.
*Our code is available at [Anonymous URL](https://anonymous.4open.science/r/annonymous-owl/), and our data is available at [Anonymous URL](https://huggingface.co/anonymous21016).* Mengkang Hu, Wendong Fan, Yuzhou Nie, Ziyu Ye, Bowei Xia, Zhaoxuan Jin, Yingru Li, Qianshuo Ye, Bernard Ghanem, Ping Luo 0002, Guohao Li 0001 |
NeurIPS | 12 |