Improving Knowledge Extraction from LLMs for Robotic Task Learning through Agent Analysis
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Large language models (LLMs) offer significant promise as a knowledge source for robotic task learning. Prompt engineering has been shown to be effective for eliciting knowledge from an LLM but alone is insufficient for acquiring relevant, situationally grounded knowledge for an embodied robotic agent learning novel tasks. We describe a cognitive-agent approach that extends and complements prompt engineering, mitigating its limitations, and thus enabling a robot to acquire new task knowledge matched to its native language capabilities, embodiment, environment, and user preferences. The approach is to increase the response space of LLMs and deploy general strategies, embedded within the autonomous robot, to evaluate, repair, and select among candidate responses produced by the LLM. We describe the approach and experiments that show how a robot, by retrieving and evaluating a breadth of responses from the LLM, can achieve >75 oversight. The approach achieves 100 (such as indication of preference) is provided, while greatly reducing how much human oversight is needed.
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