CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society

TL;DR

This paper introduces CAMEL, a framework for autonomous cooperative communicative agents using role-playing and inception prompting, enabling scalable multi-agent studies and reducing human intervention in complex language tasks.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel role-playing framework for communicative agents, facilitating autonomous cooperation and providing a scalable method for studying multi-agent language behaviors.

Findings

Effective autonomous cooperation among agents demonstrated.

Generated conversational data aids in analyzing agent behaviors.

Open-source library supports further research in communicative AI.

Abstract

The rapid advancement of chat-based language models has led to remarkable progress in complex task-solving. However, their success heavily relies on human input to guide the conversation, which can be challenging and time-consuming. This paper explores the potential of building scalable techniques to facilitate autonomous cooperation among communicative agents, and provides insight into their "cognitive" processes. To address the challenges of achieving autonomous cooperation, we propose a novel communicative agent framework named role-playing. Our approach involves using inception prompting to guide chat agents toward task completion while maintaining consistency with human intentions. We showcase how role-playing can be used to generate conversational data for studying the behaviors and capabilities of a society of agents, providing a valuable resource for investigating conversational language models. In particular, we conduct comprehensive studies on instruction-following cooperation in multi-agent settings. Our contributions include introducing a novel communicative agent framework, offering a scalable approach for studying the cooperative behaviors and capabilities of multi-agent systems, and open-sourcing our library to support research on communicative agents and beyond: https://github.com/camel-ai/camel.