ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

Shunyu Yao , Jeffrey Zhao , Dian Yu , Nan Du , Izhak Shafran , Karthik Narasimhan , Yuan Cao

🏛 Institutions: Princeton University , Google Research
📅 Date: October 6, 2022
📑 Publisher: ICLR 2023
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🔑 Keywords: framework reasoning ReAct

TLDR

Introduces ReAct, the now-standard prompting pattern that interleaves reasoning traces with actions. It is not a GUI paper, but it is foundational because many later web and computer-use agents build directly on this reasoning-action decomposition.

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