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Management, Orchestration and Supervision of AI-agent COmmunities for reliable AI in software engineering

Project description

Tackling bias and errors in AI for software engineering

Large language models (LLMs) are powerful tools, but their use in software engineering (SE) faces challenges like errors and bias. Issues such as ‘hallucinations’, where AI generates incorrect information, seem unavoidable due to how these models work. Increasing the size and complexity of LLMs alone hasn’t solved the problem. However, research shows that collaboration among multiple AI agents could improve accuracy and reliability. The EU-funded MOSAICO project is working towards turning this idea into reality. To that end, it will create a platform where AI agents work together, guided by systems for communication, quality checks and decision-making. MOSAICO’s open-source framework promises to make AI in SE faster, more accurate and widely accessible.

Objective

The reliable application of LLM-based agents to SE requires a tremendous increase in their accuracy and minimisation of their bias. While LLMs continue increasing in size and performance, it seems that phenomena like hallucinations of a single agent are substantially inevitable, since they are linked to the fundamental inference mechanism in generative models. On the other hand, evidence starts accumulating about the possibility of achieving the required performance by collaboration and debate among groups of agents.

As it happens among humans, quality of work increases with specialisation of workers on tasks, organised collaboration, and discussion among workers with different backgrounds. Differently from humans, the instantiation of multiple required AI agents, and the collaboration and discussion among them, are very fast and cheap, making this approach particularly convenient.

MOSAICO proposes the theoretical and technical framework to implement this approach and to scale it to very large groups of collaborating agents, i.e. AI-agent communities. The developed solutions are composed into an integrated MOSAICO platform, handling communication, orchestration, governance, quality assessment, benchmarking and reuse of AI agents. MOSAICO is integrated with existing development environments, to present the results to software engineers, and allow expert users to intervene in the AI decisions.

The performance and reliability of MOSAICO technologies and tools to achieve given software engineering tasks are assessed within 4 different use cases scenarios coming from immersive technologies, bank/financing, aerospace and Internet of Things sectors.

The long-term adoption of MOSAICO results and technologies will be ensured by open sourcing the code and fostering an open collaboration, such as open-source initiatives, to enhance user engagement in the MOSAICO community.

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INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM
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€ 750 000,00
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19 PLACE MARGUERITE PEREY
91120 Palaiseau
France

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Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Essonne
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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