TACT enables language agents to achieve better social outcomes while using fewer tokens and messages by having specialized teachers refine communication strategy and expression, then distilling improvements into the student agent.
This paper introduces Teacher-Assisted Communication Training (TACT), a method that helps language agents communicate more efficiently during social interactions. TACT improves how agents negotiate and coordinate by having a teacher refine both what agents say (expression) and how they say it (strategy), then distills these improvements back into the student agent.