5 papers
optimize_anything: A Universal API for Optimizing any Text Parameter
Lakshya A Agrawal, Donghyun Lee, Shangyin Tan +11
Can a single LLM-based optimization system match specialized tools across fundamentally different domains? We show that when optimization problems are formulated as improving a tex…
Composing Policy Gradients and Prompt Optimization for Language Model Programs
Noah Ziems, Dilara Soylu, Lakshya A Agrawal +10
Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has proven to be an effective tool for post-training language models (LMs). However, AI systems are increasingly expressed as modular prog…
GEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
Lakshya A Agrawal, Shangyin Tan, Dilara Soylu +14
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adapted to downstream tasks via reinforcement learning (RL) methods like Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), which often requir…
Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?
Mert Cemri, Melissa Z. Pan, Shuyi Yang +10
Despite enthusiasm for Multi-Agent LLM Systems (MAS), their performance gains on popular benchmarks are often minimal. This gap highlights a critical need for a principled understa…
LangProBe: a Language Programs Benchmark
Shangyin Tan, Lakshya A Agrawal, Arnav Singhvi +6
Composing language models (LMs) into multi-step language programs and automatically optimizing their modular prompts is now a mainstream paradigm for building AI systems, but the t…