Video course · 10 chapters · 71 min · certificate
Self-Improving AI Agents: Tools, Code & Constitutional Feedback
How agents improve with tools and feedback: ReAct for combining reasoning and acting, its challenges, RLEF execution feedback for code models, Constitutional AI learning from AI feedback, and experience versus reasoning.
What you'll learn
- Explain how ReAct combines reasoning and actions
- Apply ReAct to grounded knowledge tasks
- Identify ReAct's challenges with large action spaces
- Explain reinforcement learning from execution feedback
- Describe Constitutional AI and AI feedback
- Compare experience-based and reasoning-based agent training
Chapters
10 chapters · 71:13-
1:47
01Intro Members
Building on LLMs
LLMs solve language tasks; now we build agents on top of them.
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8:33
02ReAct Members
ReAct
Humans think before acting; ReAct interleaves thoughts and actions for language models.
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13:00
03ReAct Members
ReAct on grounded tasks
Using search actions for grounded knowledge tasks.
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12:40
04Limits Members
ReAct's challenges
Large action spaces and other challenges, discussed with the class.
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5:27
05RLEF Members
RLEF: execution feedback for code
Reinforcement learning from execution feedback improves code models on competitive programming.
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4:59
06RLEF Members
RLEF deep dive
The two-tier strategy, loss function and questions on data leakage.
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6:51
07AI feedback Members
Constitutional AI
Replacing human feedback with AI feedback guided by a constitution of principles.
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12:38
08Results Members
Constitutional AI results
Results, training sequences and questions about continual learning.
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1:08
09Training Members
Experience versus reasoning
Collecting experience in real environments versus reasoning about a defined search space.
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4:10
10Wrap-up Members
Summary and takeaways
Getting LLMs to respond in desired ways is a fundamental building block of agents.