microsoft/Trace

• highabout#1

  Clarify the repository's domain in the description

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  End-to-end Generative Optimization for AI Agents

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  Trace: A PyTorch-like Python library for end-to-end generative optimization and AutoDiff-like training of AI agents and LLM-based systems.

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• highreadme#2

  Reorder README introduction to prioritize tool's purpose

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  # End-to-end Generative Optimization for AI Agents
  
  [](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16218)
  
  **This repository accomponanies the [Trace paper. It is a fully functional implementation of the platform for generative optimization described in the paper, and contains code necessary to reproduce the experiments reported. This library was implemented and maintained by the authors while they were at Microsoft.]**
  
  Trace is a new AutoDiff-like tool for training AI systems end-to-end with general feedback (like numerical rewards or
  losses, natural language text, compiler errors, etc.). Trace generalizes the back-propagation algorithm by capturing and
  propagating an AI system's execution trace. Trace is implemented as a PyTorch-like Python library. Users write Python
  code directly and can use Trace primitives to optimize certain parts, just like training neural networks!

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  # Trace: End-to-end Generative Optimization for AI Agents
  
  Trace is a new AutoDiff-like tool for training AI systems end-to-end with general feedback (like numerical rewards or
  losses, natural language text, compiler errors, etc.). Trace generalizes the back-propagation algorithm by capturing and
  propagating an AI system's execution trace. Trace is implemented as a PyTorch-like Python library. Users write Python
  code directly and can use Trace primitives to optimize certain parts, just like training neural networks!
  
  [](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16218)
  
  **This repository accomponanies the [Trace paper. It is a fully functional implementation of the platform for generative optimization described in the paper, and contains code necessary to reproduce the experiments reported. This library was implemented and maintained by the authors while they were at Microsoft.]**

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• mediumtopics#3

  Add more specific technical keywords to topics

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  agentic-agi, agentic-workflow, agents, ai, autodiff, compound-systems, end-to-end, generative-optimization, large-language-models, llm, machine-learning, optimization, optimizer, prompt-optimization, python

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  agentic-agi, agentic-workflow, agents, ai, autodiff, backpropagation, compound-systems, end-to-end, execution-trace, feedback-optimization, generative-optimization, large-language-models, llm, machine-learning, natural-language-processing, optimization, optimizer, prompt-optimization, python, pytorch, reinforcement-learning

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