AI 决策不再靠猜,而是靠“经验预测”
现在的 AI 智能体做决定,基本靠“猜”:给它一段任务描述,它凭语言模型里的常识硬答。这篇论文换了个思路——把决策变成“预测”:先让语言模型把当前情况和历史记录翻译成语义,再交给一个专门学“经验规律”的预测器,由它来推断该选哪个。关键是,这个预测器是预训练好的,部署时不用改任何参数,只靠喂进来的历史数据就能给出针对当前任务的判断。结果:在 50 个基准上,平均准确率从 78.80% 提到 84.92%;在工具调用类任务上,准确率直接涨了 34 个百分点。它不是你明天就能用上的产品,但它指出了一个方向:AI 的能力可以拆成“懂语言”和“懂经验”两块,后者可以单独训练、单独进步。
📄 原文摘要(英文)
Agent decisions depend on empirical relationships that deployment observations reveal and task descriptions alone may leave unresolved. We introduce Decoupled Predictive Decision Making (DPDM), an architecture that formulates heterogeneous agent decisions as conditional prediction with a shared pretrained learner. Language models provide semantic representations of current and historical records, while a general-purpose conditional predictor predicts task-defined targets from the represented evidence. Pretraining supplies reusable inference capability; deployment evidence instantiates problem-specific predictions without updating either model's neural parameters. Tool judgments, candidate preferences, and reasoning assessments share an evidence-and-query interface, with predictions mapped to choices by a decision rule. This architecture establishes complementary sources of agent capability: semantic knowledge acquired through language pretraining and empirical inference acquired through structured-data pretraining. A single frozen LimiX-2 predictor serves all five task categories. With Qwen3.5-27B as the semantic encoder, DPDM raises mean accuracy across 50 benchmarks from 78.80% with few-shot prompting to 84.92% under their respective evaluated history budgets, and reaches 82.33% with identical histories and queries. On ToolPRMBench's BFCL and ToolSandbox tasks, absolute accuracy gains are 34.26% and 28.87%, respectively, at the methods' respective evaluated history budgets. Accuracy improves as history grows. With identical imbalanced histories, mean balanced accuracy improves by an absolute 14.51% across five reasoning-step assessment tasks and four encoders. DPDM makes learning from experience an independently improvable foundation-model capability, creating a shared route for advances in conditional prediction to improve decisions across agent tasks.