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ReAct establishes the reason-then-act loop

ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

Date
October 6, 2022
Category
Research breakthrough
Organization / Model
Princeton University / Google Research
Evidence
1 source · 1 evidence family

Yao and colleagues had the model alternate reasoning traces with external actions and continue reasoning from what the environment returned. The think-act-observe loop became the common skeleton for tool calling and autonomous agents, and the default working style of most agent frameworks.

Curator's note: Cross-checked against the arXiv preprint; the paper was published at ICLR in 2023.

Curated sources · 1

  1. Original paper · arXiv2022-10-06

    ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

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