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Optimas: Optimizing Compound AI Systems with Globally Aligned Local Rewards
Created by
Haebom
Author
Shirley Wu, Parth Sarthi, Shiyu Zhao, Aaron Lee, Herumb Shandilya, Adrian Mladenic Grobelnik, Nurendra Choudhary, Eddie Huang, Karthik Subbian, Linjun Zhang, Diyi Yang, James Zou, Jure Leskovec
Outline
Optimas is a unified framework for effectively optimizing complex AI systems that integrate multiple components, such as large-scale language models, specialized tools, and traditional machine learning models. Optimas addresses the challenges of optimizing complex systems due to their undifferentiated architecture and diverse configuration types by maintaining a local reward function (LRF), where the local reward of each component is related to the overall system performance. Optimas efficiently adjusts the LRF at each iteration to maximize the local reward of each component while maintaining this property. This ensures that local improvements consistently lead to performance gains, while independently updating heterogeneous configurations. Optimas achieved an average of 11.92% better performance than a robust baseline on five real-world complex systems.
Takeaways, Limitations
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Takeaways:
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A new framework for solving optimization problems in complex AI systems is presented.
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Enables independent optimization of each component through local reward functions.
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Effectively handles different types of components and settings.
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Demonstrated superior performance over existing methodologies in real-world complex systems.
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Limitations:
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Lack of detailed information on specific LRF design and tuning methodologies.
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It is difficult to conclude generalized performance based on experiments on only five systems.
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Further analysis of the interactions and dependencies between individual components is needed.
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Potential difficulties in practical application and scaling of Optimas (e.g., computational cost).