AIOS Compiler: LLM as Interpreter for Natural Language Programming and Flow Programming of AI Agents

TL;DR

This paper introduces CoRE, a system that uses Large Language Models as interpreters to understand and execute natural language, pseudo-code, and flow programming for AI agents, enhancing natural language programming's accessibility.

Contribution

It presents a unified framework employing LLMs as interpreters for natural language, pseudo-code, and flow programming, with external memory and tool invocation capabilities.

Findings

Effective natural language instruction interpretation

Unified representation for different programming paradigms

Open-source implementation available

Abstract

Since their inception, programming languages have trended towards greater readability and lower barriers for programmers. Following this trend, natural language can be a promising type of programming language that provides great flexibility and usability and helps towards the democracy of programming. However, the inherent vagueness, ambiguity, and verbosity of natural language pose significant challenges in developing an interpreter that can accurately understand the programming logic and execute instructions written in natural language. Fortunately, recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in interpreting complex natural language. Inspired by this, we develop a novel system for Code Representation and Execution (CoRE), which employs LLM as interpreter to interpret and execute natural language instructions. The proposed system unifies natural language programming, pseudo-code programming, and flow programming under the same representation for constructing language agents, while LLM serves as the interpreter to interpret and execute the agent programs. In this paper, we begin with defining the programming syntax that structures natural language instructions logically. During the execution, we incorporate external memory to minimize redundancy. Furthermore, we equip the designed interpreter with the capability to invoke external tools, compensating for the limitations of LLM in specialized domains or when accessing real-time information. This work is open-source at https://github.com/agiresearch/CoRE, https://github.com/agiresearch/OpenAGI, and https://github.com/agiresearch/AIOS.