ChatLLM network: More brains, more intelligence
Rui Hao, Linmei Hu, Weijian Qi, Qingliu Wu, Yirui Zhang, Liqiang Nie · AI Open · 2025
Dialogue-based language models mark a huge milestone in the field of artificial intelligence, by their impressive ability to interact with users, as well as a series of challenging tasks prompted by customized instructions. However, the prevalent large-scale dialogue-based language models like ChatGPT still have room for improvement, such as unstable responses to questions and the inability to think cooperatively like humans. Considering the ability of dialogue-based language models in conversation and their inherent randomness in thinking, we propose ChatLLM network that allows multiple dialogue-based language models to interact, provide feedback, and think together. We design a network of ChatLLMs, consisting multiple layers of language models. Specifically, individual instances of language model may possess distinct perspectives towards the same problem, and by consolidating these diverse viewpoints via a separate language model, the ChatLLM network system can conduct decision-making more objectively and comprehensively. In addition, a language-based feedback mechanism comparable to backpropagation is devised to update the outputs of the language models within the network. This stratified system of interaction can be analogized to the relationship between leaders and employees in a social organization, where collective decision-making often yields superior judgments or resolutions. Experiments on datasets demonstrate that our network attains significant improvements in problem-solving, leading to observable progress amongst each member. • We introduce an innovative multi-layer ChatLLM network that facilitates the interaction of multiple dialogue-based language models, thereby improving problem-solving capabilities. • In the ChatLLM network we propose, we have developed a forward aggregation mechanism to combine outputs. Additionally, we have introduced a novel language-based backpropagation algorithm for network updates.