S-Agents: Self-organizing Agents in Open-ended Environments

Jiaqi Chen, Yuxian Jiang, Jiachen Lu, Li Zhang

Keywords: LLM agent, multi-agent collaboration

TL;DR: This study has introduced self-organizing agents, a type of embodied agent group capable of autonomously orchestrating workflows without manual human design

Abstract: Leveraging large language models (LLMs), autonomous agents have significantly improved, gaining the ability to handle a variety of tasks. In open-ended settings, optimizing collaboration for efficiency and effectiveness demands flexible adjustments. Despite this, current research mainly emphasizes fixed, task-oriented workflows and overlooks agent-centric organizational structures. Drawing inspiration from human organizational behavior, we introduce a self-organizing agent system (S-Agents) with a "tree of agents" structure for dynamic workflow, an "hourglass agent architecture" for balancing information priorities, and a "non-obstructive collaboration" method to allow asynchronous task execution among agents. This structure can autonomously coordinate a group of agents, efficiently addressing the challenges of open and dynamic environments without human intervention. Our experiments demonstrate that S-Agents proficiently execute collaborative building tasks and resource collection in the Minecraft environments, validating their effectiveness.

Submission Number: 6