ComplLLM: Fine-tuning LLMs to Discover Complementary Signals for Decision-making

Ziyang Guo, Yifan Wu, Jason Hartline, Ken Holstein, Jessica Hullman

Keywords: Decision-making, multi-agent, post training, LLM

Abstract:

Multi-agent decision pipelines can outperform single agent workflows when complementarity holds, i.e., different agents bring unique information to the table to inform a final decision.
We propose ComplLLM, a post-training framework based on decision theory that fine-tunes a decision-assistant LLM using complementary information as reward to output signals that complement existing agent decisions.
We validate ComplLLM on synthetic and real-world tasks involving domain experts, demonstrating how the approach recovers known complementary information and produces plausible explanations of complementary signals to support downstream decision-makers.

Submission Number: 29