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This research introduces an agentic framework for text clustering that dynamically adapts pipeline logic using specialized roles like auditors and investigators, overcoming the rigidity of fixed-programmatic approaches. By allowing the system to inspect its own state and adjust strategies in real-time, it achieves significant performance gains on diverse benchmarks while better incorporating user constraints. This represents a meaningful advancement in applying multi-agent systems to core machine learning tasks rather than incidental applications.
Agentic Clustering: Controllable Text Taxonomies via Multi-Agent Refinement
arXiv:2606.01255v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent text-clustering methods use large language models to propose a cluster taxonomy from a corpus and then assign each text to it. These pipelines are fundamentally programmatic: the sequence of LLM calls and the rules for stopping, merging, and splitting clusters are fixed in code in advance, so they generalise poorly across corpora of different structure and cannot easily incorporate user-supplied constraints such as a target cluster count or a clustering intent. We propose an agentic alternative in which an orchestrator LLM inspects the state of the discovery process at each step and dispatches one of a small set of specialised agents -- proposer, synthesizer, auditor, investigator, and critic -- adapting the pipeline to the corpus rather than executing a fixed one. On seven public text-clustering benchmarks the method achieves state-of-the-art performance, beating the strongest prior baseline by 47% in mean ARI.
Abstract:Recent text-clustering methods use large language models to propose a cluster taxonomy from a corpus and then assign each text to it. These pipelines are fundamentally programmatic: the sequence of LLM calls and the rules for stopping, merging, and splitting clusters are fixed in code in advance, so they generalise poorly across corpora of different structure and cannot easily incorporate user-supplied constraints such as a target cluster count or a clustering intent. We propose an agentic alternative in which an orchestrator LLM inspects the state of the discovery process at each step and dispatches one of a small set of specialised agents -- proposer, synthesizer, auditor, investigator, and critic -- adapting the pipeline to the corpus rather than executing a fixed one. On seven public text-clustering benchmarks the method achieves state-of-the-art performance, beating the strongest prior baseline by 47% in mean ARI.
Computation and Language (cs.CL)
arXiv:2606.01255 [cs.CL]
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