Jeffrey Zhao

Distributing Accountability, Not Capability: Phase Separation and the LLM Workflow Quadrant in Autonomous AI Agent Architectures

2022 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Autonomous AI agents in business deployments exhibit a recurring failure mode: when an incident occurs, responsibility cannot be redirected to a separable contributor. The dominant discourse treats this as a single phenomenon, addressed by sandboxing, …

Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Language models are increasingly being deployed for general problem solving across a wide range of tasks, but are still confined to token-level, left-to-right decision-making processes during inference. This means they can fall short in tasks …