Agents That Think and Act

Large Language Model Agents from First Principles

Rajesh Ranjan Mahapatra

Large language model agents built from the ground up: what an agent is and the language model inside it; reasoning through intermediate steps, self-consistency and longer thinking; acting with tools, memory and learned interfaces; frameworks,…

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