@h100envy: This paper completely changed how I think about a swarm of agents: Describe an agent as a graph -> Nodes are operations…
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A paper presents a framework where LLM agents are represented as computational graphs with nodes as operations and edges as information flow, enabling automatic optimization of both node prompts and edge connectivity via RL, turning scattered agent swarms into a single optimizable graph.
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This paper completely changed how I think about a swarm of agents:
Describe an agent as a graph -> Nodes are operations -> Edges are information flow -> Wire agents into one graph -> Optimize the graph itself automatically
Here is the 5-step blueprint:
Agent as a graph: any LLM agent is represented as a computational graph, where nodes are functions that process data or query the model.
Edges as links: edges define the information flow between operations, that is who passes a result to whom inside an agent and between agents.
Composition: graphs are recursively assembled into large composite graphs, so a swarm of agents becomes one object instead of a pile of hand-written scripts.
Node optimization: the first optimizer automatically tunes prompts at the level of individual nodes.
Edge optimization: the second optimizer uses RL to change graph connectivity, that is the orchestration of the swarm itself, cutting useless links and keeping the working ones.
Key insight: you do not hand-design a swarm’s topology; graph connectivity is a learnable parameter optimized like weights.
Two levels of auto-optimization - node prompts and edge connectivity - turn scattered agent frameworks into one optimizable graph.
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