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arXiv:2602.20426v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While most efforts to improve LLM-based tool-using agents focus on the agent itself - through larger models, better prompting, or fine-tuning - agen

arXiv:2609.15397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents increasingly execute long-running workflows that externalize effects through independently supplied tools. Under retries, speculative executio

arXiv:2609.09395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models act through tools, yet practical agents face libraries containing thousands of interfaces. We introduce the tool menu as the short, orde

arXiv:2609.00967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models increasingly act through external tools, deciding when to call a tool has become a central problem alongside deciding how to us

arXiv:2608.24368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable multi-turn tool use requires an agent to preserve an evolving task state and ensure that each action remains consistent with it. However, direc

arXiv:2608.23635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) rely on tool calling as a fundamental agent capability, enabling them to invoke external systems and complete tasks beyon

arXiv:2606.06284v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly rely on external tools, but larger tool menus can reduce reliability and efficiency by increasing wrong-tool ca

arXiv:2604.19821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents augmented with external tools often struggle as number of tools grow large and become domain-specific. In such setting

arXiv:2607.04686v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool calling is central to modern language model agents, but aggregate benchmark scores often hide where tool use fails. A model that never calls a ne

arXiv:2606.07904v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented large language model agents increasingly rely on external APIs, but standard tool schemas describe how to call a tool, not when the tool

arXiv:2604.10788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) has emerged as a promising direction by extending Large Language Models' (LLMs) capabilities with external tools durin

arXiv:2609.18849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: An agentic request spends substantial wall-clock time waiting for tools, and its KV cache holds GPU memory the whole time. Serving systems decide whet

arXiv:2609.03493v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern vision-language models (VLMs) can directly answer many image-grounded questions, yet they often struggle with complex queries requiring fine-grai

arXiv:2609.16268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly interleave natural language reasoning with external tools such as web search and code execution. These to

arXiv:2601.12449v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents are autonomous systems that combine LLMs with external tools to solve complex tasks. While such tools extend capability, improper to

arXiv:2606.02357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented multimodal agents show strong benchmark gains, often taken as evidence that agents have learned to use tools. We argue that this interp

arXiv:2609.30293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI agents to discover and call tools, but loading every definition becomes expensive as connected catalogs gr

arXiv:2607.28225v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic vision-language models (VLMs), which interleave textual reasoning with explicit tool calls such as cropping and code-based image manipulation, h

arXiv:2605.12481v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Computer Use Agents (CUAs) can act through both atomic GUI actions, such as click and type, and high-level tool calls, such as API-based file operat

arXiv:2609.19425v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented large language model (LLM) agents fail in a way no tool-selection or tool-security method addresses: they call tools that do not exist an

arXiv:2608.26295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented LLMs must arbitrate between two fallible sources when a tool return conflicts with their parametric memory, yet existing evaluations me

arXiv:2608.27146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented LLM agents must rely on untrusted runtime Observations to complete open-ended tasks; however, when tool outputs no longer merely provide

arXiv:2608.24571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented language models are bounded by the APIs humans bothered to write; existing tool-creation systems patch this by prompting a frozen LLM at

arXiv:2608.01056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using language-model agents are governed not only by task prompts but also by persistent system-side instructions that specify tools, arguments,

arXiv:2512.21414v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent tool-use frameworks powered by vision-language models (VLMs) improve image understanding by grounding model predictions with specialized tool

arXiv:2605.07103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reaction feasibility prediction, as a fundamental problem in computational chemistry, has benefited from diverse tools enabled by recent advances in art

arXiv:2511.10899v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool-augmented Language Models (TaLMs) can invoke external tools to solve problems beyond their parametric capacity. However, it remains unclear whe

arXiv:2604.13787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) enhance their problem-solving capability by utilizing external tools. However, in open-world scenarios with massive and evo

arXiv:2610.04836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing agents rely on perception, measurement, and raster analysis tools to solve Earth observation tasks. We refer to their judgments and quant

arXiv:2610.03213v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-equipped AI agents use tool calls to access data and act on external systems. Horizontal growth of agentic systems increases the number of these in

arXiv:2609.37315v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using agents are entering settings where a wrong action carries real cost, and the benchmarks certifying them grade what each simulated tool call

arXiv:2508.14925v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: By providing a standardized interface for LLM agents to interact with external tools, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) is quickly becoming a c

arXiv:2608.14047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper integrates end-to-end Visual-Language-Action (VLA) models with agentic tool-use to propose Agentic Robot with Tool-use (ART). ART is a tool

arXiv:2607.11183v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models increasingly operate as tool-using agents, where small format, argument, or function-call errors can invalidate otherwise plau

arXiv:2605.18500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have increasingly leveraged tool invocation to enhance their reasoning capabilities. However, existing approaches typically

arXiv:2605.09934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models increasingly solve vision-centric tasks by calling external tools for visual inspection, OCR, retrieval, calculation, a

arXiv:2605.11928v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool-use language agents are evaluated on benchmarks that assume clean inputs, unambiguous tool registries, and reliable APIs. Real deployments viol

arXiv:2610.02330v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) rely on long-horizon tool invocation sequences for complex tasks, where each invocation can alter the task state and condit

arXiv:2608.06370v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool use transforms LLMs into agents that act beyond their training data, and for code-capable models, programmatic tool calling extends this further by

arXiv:2608.02372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in task-oriented dialogue systems that support multi-step decision-making in high-stakes domains

arXiv:2606.00096v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual agents employ external visual tools within visual chains of thought to incorporate fine-grained evidence. While prior work has mainly studied t

arXiv:2605.07990v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a tool-calling agent picks the wrong tool, the failure is invisible until execution: the email gets sent, the meeting gets missed. Probing 12 ins

arXiv:2512.17052v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Function calling agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) select external tools to automate complex tasks. On-device agents typically use a re

arXiv:2604.15715v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The development of general-purpose agents requires a shift from executing simple instructions to completing complex, real-world productivity workflows

arXiv:2609.26836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI systems are increasingly adopting automated pipelines that integrate multiple tools. While prior research and benchmarks have studied about t

arXiv:2609.25678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents must generalize from tools seen during training to unseen tools at deployment. A key challenge is tool trialing, i.e