Understanding the planning of LLM agents: A survey

May 31 in Agents

The idea of leveraging LLMs as agents performing autonomously is the latest rave.

In general I continue to take the view that these systems are not in fact 'agents' as the definition of this concept would typically require (have a will/interest of their own), but rather that they follow a predefined sequence of steps or a DAG (directed acyclic graph), which is much more akin to execution than agency.

This survey provides the systematic overview of LLM-based agent planning, covering recent works aiming to improve planning ability. It provides a taxonomy of existing works on LLM-Agent planning, which can be categorized into: