Edge 391: Autonomous Agents and LLM Function Calling
LLMs that invoke external functions, UC Berkeley's LLM Compiler and the Phidata framework.
In this Issue:
An overview of function calling in LLMs and its role in autonomous agnets.
A review of UC Berkeley’s LLM Compiler to execute parallel functions in LLMs.
An introduction to the Phidata framework for building autonomous agents.
💡 ML Concept of the Day: LLM Function Calling and Autonomous Agents
In the first few installments of this series about autonomous agents, we have been exploring the ability of agents to integrate with third party tools or APIs. There have been multiple techniques that have emerged in this area but there is one in particular that has seen a robust level of adoption with mainstream models. Function calling refers to the ability of LLMs to invoke functions from external APIs. In the context of autonomous agents, function calling plays a role by allowing agents to retrieve information or perform actions on external systems.