Assessing and Verifying Task Utility in LLM-Powered Applications

Negar Arabzadeh, Siqing Huo, Nikhil Mehta, Qingyun Wu, Chi Wang, Ahmed Awadallah, Charles L.A. Clarke, Julia Kiseleva

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Abstract

The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a surge in applications that facilitate collaboration among multiple agents, assisting humans in their daily tasks. However, a significant gap remains in assessing to what extent LLM-powered applications genuinely enhance user experience and task execution efficiency. This highlights the need to verify utility of LLM-powered applications, particularly by ensuring alignment between the application's functionality and end-user needs. We introduce AgentEval, a novel framework designed to simplify the utility verification process by automatically proposing a set of criteria tailored to the unique purpose of any given application. This allows for a comprehensive assessment, quantifying the utility of an application against the suggested criteria. We present a comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness and robustness of AgentEval for two open source datasets including Math Problem solving and ALFWorld House-hold related tasks. For reproducibility purposes, we make the data, code and all the logs publicly available at https://github.com/Narabzad/AgentEval/.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEMNLP 2024 - 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsYaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages21868-21888
Number of pages21
ISBN (Electronic)9798891761643
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2024 - Hybrid, Miami, United States
Duration: Nov 12 2024Nov 16 2024

Publication series

NameEMNLP 2024 - 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHybrid, Miami
Period11/12/2411/16/24

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems
  • Linguistics and Language

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