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arXiv 论文提出并行智能体小组方法提升测试时计算扩展效率

Test-Time Compute Scales Better with Parallel Agent Teams

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研究发现推理时别让 100 个智能体单干,也别挤成一个大组,分成 10 个小组并行跑效果最好,一半任务还能赢过前沿模型。

一篇 arXiv 论文提出 parallel agent teams 方法:在推理时并行采样多个小规模协作智能体小组,保留最优小组的结果。实验使用 27B 模型、100 个智能体的预算,在 12 个长程任务(GPU kernel、形式化证明、漏洞利用开发)上,10 个一组的并行小组在 12 个任务中的 10 个上胜过并行独立智能体,并在所有 4 个可比任务上胜过单个 100 人团队。在相同美元成本下,该方法在一半任务上超过一个前沿模型。论文解释其优势来自兼顾高均值与方差收益。

Original · arXiv cs.AI

Test-Time Compute Scales Better with Parallel Agent Teams

Test-time scaling improves the performance of a fixed model by spending more computation at inference. There are two common ways to spend it on agents when a verifier can score every attempt. Best-of-N sampling runs many independent agents and keeps the best result but saturates quickly. One large team of collaborating agents can score higher but stops improving as it grows. Can we get the best of both? Our method, parallel agent teams, does so by sampling many small teams in parallel and keeping the best team's result. We test it on 12 long-horizon tasks from GPU kernels and formal proofs to exploit development. With a 27B model and a budget of 100 agents, parallel teams of ten beat parallel agents on 10 of 12 tasks and beat one team of 100 on all four tasks where we ran such large teams. At equal dollar cost the same parallel teams beat a frontier model on half the tasks. A simple statistical model shows that individual agents lose because their many samples have a low mean and that one large team loses because a single sample gets no gain from variance. Sampling many small teams in parallel balances a high mean with the gain from variance. Parallel agent teams thus offer a more effective way to scale test-time compute.