Prompt EngineeringNoah Shinn et al. (Northeastern University, MIT)MIT

Shinn et al. present Reflexion

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Presented Reflexion — reflects in language on failed trajectories, stores the reflections in memory and retries

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The lineage of verbal reinforcement learning without weight updates. The v1 title was an autonomous agent with dynamic memory and self-reflection

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366

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