Rethinking the Bounds of LLM Reasoning: Are Multi-Agent Discussions the Key? (2024.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent progress in LLMs discussion suggests that multi-agent discussion improves the reasoning abilities of LLM. |
| Approach: | They propose a group discussion framework to enrich the set of discussion mechanisms. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework performs better on a wide range of reasoning tasks and backbone LLMs. |
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