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GPTSwarm: Language Agents as Optimizable Graphs

Conference Paper Accept (Oral) Artificial Intelligence · Machine Learning

Abstract

Various human-designed prompt engineering techniques have been proposed to improve problem solvers based on Large Language Models (LLMs), yielding many disparate code bases. We unify these approaches by describing LLM-based agents as computational graphs. The nodes implement functions to process multimodal data or query LLMs, and the edges describe the information flow between operations. Graphs can be recursively combined into larger composite graphs representing hierarchies of inter-agent collaboration (where edges connect operations of different agents). Our novel automatic graph optimizers (1) refine node-level LLM prompts (node optimization) and (2) improve agent orchestration by changing graph connectivity (edge optimization). Experiments demonstrate that our framework can be used to efficiently develop, integrate, and automatically improve various LLM agents. Our code is public.

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Venue
International Conference on Machine Learning
Archive span
1993-2025
Indexed papers
16471
Paper id
1048773448705606284
v2026.09.13