LLM-Based Human-Agent Collaboration and Interaction Systems: A Survey
Abstract
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have sparked growing interest in building fully autonomous agents. However, fully autonomous LLM-based agents still face significant challenges, including limited reliability due to hallucinations, difficulty in handling complex tasks, and substantial safety and ethical risks, all of which limit their feasibility and trustworthiness in real-world applications. To overcome these limitations, LLM-based human-agent systems (LLM-HAS) incorporate human-provided information, feedback, or control into the agent system to enhance system performance, reliability, and safety. These human-agent collaboration systems enable humans and LLM-based agents to collaborate effectively by leveraging their complementary strengths. This paper provides the first comprehensive and structured survey of LLM-HAS. It clarifies fundamental concepts, systematically presents core components shaping these systems, including environment and profiling, human feedback, interaction types, orchestration, and communication, explores emerging applications, and discusses unique challenges and opportunities arising from human-AI collaboration. By consolidating current knowledge and offering a structured overview, we aim to foster further research and innovation in this rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field. Paper lists and resources are available at https://github.com/HenryPengZou/Awesome-Human-Agent-Collaboration-Interaction-Systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2505.00753,
title = {LLM-Based Human-Agent Collaboration and Interaction Systems: A Survey},
author = {Henry Peng Zou and Wei-Chieh Huang and Yaozu Wu and Jizhou Guo and Yankai Chen and Chunyu Miao and Hoang Nguyen and Yue Zhou and Weizhi Zhang and Liancheng Fang and Hanrong Zhang and Fangxin Wang and Pengfei Zhang and Huacan Wang and Langzhou He and Yangning Li and Dongyuan Li and Renhe Jiang and Xue Liu and Philip S. Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.00753},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Accepted by ACL 2026 (Findings). Paper lists and resources are available at https://github.com/HenryPengZou/Awesome-Human-Agent-Collaboration-Interaction-Systems