Concise and Precise Context Compression for Tool-Using Language Models (2024.findings-acl)
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Yang Xu, Yunlong Feng, Honglin Mu, Yutai Hou, Yitong Li, Xinghao Wang, Wanjun Zhong, Zhongyang Li, Dandan Tu, Qingfu Zhu, Min Zhang, Wanxiang Che
| Challenge: | Existing methods suffer from key information loss and difficulty in adjusting the length of compressed sequences based on documentation lengths. |
| Approach: | They propose two strategies for compressing tool documentation into concise and precise summary sequences for tool-using language models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves comparable performance to the upper-bound baseline under 16x compression ratio. |
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