BobFlow：用数据流实现人机协作数据科学
BobFlow: Towards Human-Agent Collaborative Data Science Using Dataflows
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BobFlow 是一个将数据流抽象与 ReAct 范式结合的系统，让 AI 智能体为数据科学任务迭代构建并执行数据流，分析人员可检查分析过程并给出反馈。用户研究表明它帮助分析人员理解、检查和验证智能体生成的分析。在多个闭源与开源权重 LLM 上的评测显示，其准确率最高提升 18.6 分，推理成本仅为基于脚本的 ReAct 智能体的约 1/3。
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Abstract:Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have established human-agent collaboration as a promising paradigm for data science. Effective collaboration requires a shared computational abstraction that enables agents to reason about processing logic while allowing human analysts to understand, guide, and refine the analysis. Although scripts written in Python or SQL provide precise control, their syntax and execution details can be difficult for analysts to understand and modify. In this paper, we argue that dataflows are an effective abstraction for human-agent collaboration in data science. We introduce BobFlow, a system that combines the dataflow abstraction with the ReAct paradigm. It enables agents to iteratively construct and execute dataflows for data science tasks while allowing analysts to inspect the analysis and provide feedback. Our user study shows that BobFlow helps analysts understand, inspect, and verify agent-generated analyses. A thorough experimental evaluation across proprietary and open-weight LLMs shows accuracy score gains of up to 18.6 points at just over 1/3 of a script-based ReAct agent's inference cost.
| Subjects: | Databases (cs.DB); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2611.05761 [cs.DB] |
| (or arXiv:2611.05761v1 [cs.DB] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2611.05761 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) |
Submission history
From: Jiadong Bai [view email]
[v1]
Wed, 4 Nov 2026 00:02:41 UTC (2,273 KB)
来源：arXiv cs.AI · arxiv.org