{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/s-agents-self-organizing-agents-in-open-ended","title":"S-Agents: Self-organizing Agents in Open-ended Environments","arxiv_id":"2402.04578","date":"2024-02-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Jiaqi Chen","Yuxian Jiang","Jiachen Lu","Li Zhang"],"abstract":"Leveraging large language models (LLMs), autonomous agents have significantly improved, gaining the ability to handle a variety of tasks. In open-ended settings, optimizing collaboration for efficiency and effectiveness demands flexible adjustments. Despite this, current research mainly emphasizes fixed, task-oriented workflows and overlooks agent-centric organizational structures. Drawing inspiration from human organizational behavior, we introduce a self-organizing agent system (S-Agents) with a \"tree of agents\" structure for dynamic workflow, an \"hourglass agent architecture\" for balancing information priorities, and a \"non-obstructive collaboration\" method to allow asynchronous task execution among agents. This structure can autonomously coordinate a group of agents, efficiently addressing the challenges of open and dynamic environments without human intervention. Our experiments demonstrate that S-Agents proficiently execute collaborative building tasks and resource collection in the Minecraft environment, validating their effectiveness.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.04578v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04578v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"s-agents-self-organizing-agents-in-open-ended","repo_url":"https://github.com/fudan-zvg/s-agents","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"minecraft","task_name":"Minecraft"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":"https://syntology.ai/paper/2402.04578","atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2402.04578","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}