CoLa: Learning to Interactively Collaborate with Large Language Models

Abhishek Sharma, Dan Goldwasser
4/3/2025
cs.CLcs.AIcs.LG

No confident code implementation found for this paper. 2 possible matches can be shown below.

Abstract

LLMs' remarkable ability to tackle a wide range of language tasks opened new opportunities for collaborative human-AI problem solving. LLMs can amplify human capabilities by applying their intuitions and reasoning strategies at scale. We explore whether human guides can be simulated, by generalizing from human demonstrations of guiding an AI system to solve complex language problems. We introduce CoLa, a novel self-guided learning paradigm for training automated $\textit{guides}$ and evaluate it on two QA datasets, a puzzle-solving task, and a constrained text generation task. Our empirical results show that CoLa consistently outperforms competitive approaches across all domains. Moreover, a small-sized trained guide outperforms a strong model like GPT-4 when acting as a guide. We compare the strategies employed by humans and automated guides by conducting a human study on a QA dataset. We show that automated guides outperform humans by adapting their strategies to reasoners' capabilities and conduct qualitative analyses highlighting distinct differences in guiding strategies.

View on arXivView PDF

Code Implementations

No confident code match yet

We couldn't find an author-owned or strongly-evidenced community implementation for this paper. 2 weaker matches are hidden by default — verify before relying on them.

No code implementations found yet.

Know of an implementation? Let us know in the comments below!

Similar Papers

Cite this paper

@article{sharma2025cola,
  title  = {CoLa: Learning to Interactively Collaborate with Large Language Models},
  author = {Abhishek Sharma and Dan Goldwasser},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2504.02965},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02965v3}
}

Add a badge to your README

Shows whether official code is linked for this paper.

Code of Paper badge
[![Code of Paper](https://codeofpaper.com/badge/2504.02965.svg)](https://codeofpaper.com/paper/2504.02965)

Discussion