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arXiv:2608.25559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video deep research answers complex questions by jointly understanding video content and retrieving external knowledge from the open Web. However, diver

arXiv:2608.20397v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic large language models (LLMs) on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) re-encode verbose tool schemas every turn, so prefill - quadratic in sequence l

arXiv:2608.19662v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic language models repeatedly encode tool and skill schemas that recur across requests in different combinations and orders, preventing standard pr

arXiv:2608.10357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon tool-using agents must reason over user goals, domain policies, tool calls, simulator state, and delayed verifiable rewards. Reinforcemen

arXiv:2608.06057v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-calling agents infer task state from accumulated dialogue and tool traces. In persistent interactions, however, historical traces may remain struct

arXiv:2608.03403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The performance bottleneck of agents is increasingly shifting from model capability to the robustness of their execution processes. Tools play a central

arXiv:2608.02645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents rely on external tools to perform multistage tasks. Existing agent frameworks typically assume that tool calls are a

arXiv:2607.02873v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model agents driving security tool suites over the Model Context Protocol are increasingly common. Yet the factors that bound their cap

arXiv:2604.16870v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents increasingly call external tools (file system, network, APIs) through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). These tool calls are the age

arXiv:2606.30632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Can the robot use a plate to cut a cake if no knife is available? Tool use greatly expands robot capabilities, but to use tools creatively beyond thei

arXiv:2606.22251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tactile sensing enables robots to perceive rich contact information at the grasp, supporting tasks such as object recognition, in-hand pose estimation,

arXiv:2606.11702v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To make clinically grounded decisions, medical AI agents are expected to go beyond simple recognition and be capable of tool retrieval, evidence acqui

arXiv:2606.10803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at utilizing digital APIs and increasingly serve as the 'brain' of embodied AI, instructing robots to i

arXiv:2606.00566v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As language models take on agentic roles that span calling external APIs, reading tool outputs, and acting on instructions embedded in third-party con

arXiv:2605.26154v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-driven agents are capable of selecting external tools to complete users' tasks. However, attackers could compromise such process, steering agents

arXiv:2605.24248v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how a large-language-model (LLM) agent and an external tool server exchange messages, but not trust: a h

arXiv:2605.16909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using agents are increasingly expected to operate across realistic professional workflows, where they must interpret multimodal inputs, coordinate

arXiv:2510.03992v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in agentic systems, where a fundamental task is mapping user intents to relevant extern

arXiv:2605.06890v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are promising for high-stakes enterprise workflows, but dependable deployment remains limited because tool-use failures are difficult to diagn

arXiv:2605.04107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Production agent frameworks (OpenAI Function Calling, Anthropic Tool Use, MCP) transmit tool schemas as JSON, a format designed for machine parsing, n

arXiv:2601.03555v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training reliable tool-augmented agents remains a significant challenge, largely due to the difficulty of credit assignment in multi-step reasoning.

arXiv:2601.20144v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool-calling agents are increasingly deployed in real-world customer-facing workflows. Yet most studies on tool-calling agents focus on idealized se

arXiv:2604.17886v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Users often omit essential details in their requests to LLM-based agents, resulting in under-specified inputs for tool use. This poses a fundamental cha

arXiv:2510.22977v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) is a key strategy for building Agents that 'think then act.' However, rec

arXiv:2604.11790v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated impressive capabilities in automating complex, multi-step real-world tasks, yet rem

arXiv:2604.06185v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fulfilling user needs through Large Language Model multi-turn, multi-step tool-use is rarely a straightforward process. Real user interactions are inh

arXiv:2510.10931v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While reinforcement learning (RL) enhances their ability to plan and reason across retrieval steps, we identify a critical failure mode in this sett

arXiv:2610.01349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using large language model (LLM) agents turn generated text into real side effects, so poisoned tool metadata, retrieved pages, memory, and reusa

arXiv:2508.08882v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in multi-agent systems highlight the potential of specialized small agents that collaborate via division of labor. Existing tool-int

arXiv:2609.39066v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Conventional image forgery detection methods produce binary scores or pixel-level masks without interpretable evidence, while recent multimodal large la

arXiv:2609.31234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Problem. Ultra-high-resolution (UHR) remote sensing with vague user intents has two bottlenecks: visual tokens are expensive, and tool calling must be f

arXiv:2609.29050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-calling agents produce heterogeneous outputs, interleaving structured tool invocations with user-facing natural language summaries. This output het

arXiv:2609.17985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are usually evaluated by whether they complete a task. In interactive service settings, a successful agent can still frustrate users by asking

arXiv:2609.17848v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Limited controlled evidence exists on how training data, adaptation method, and model scale jointly affect tool-calling performance in language-model ag

arXiv:2609.14523v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Change visual question answering (Change VQA) requires understanding semantic changes across bi-temporal remote sensing images. Although vision language

arXiv:2609.10221v2 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning over a frozen reasoner has become a common recipe for teaching a policy which external tools to invoke. We show that this recipe

arXiv:2608.26133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating AI agents that use external tools requires realistic test scenarios that capture how practitioners compose tools and iterate across conversat

arXiv:2608.24509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents increasingly solve tasks by invoking multiple tools, where parallel execution is essential for low latency but difficult to manage safely. Ex

arXiv:2608.11281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool wear prediction is an important task in CNC machining, where accurate monitoring of tool condition supports product quality and process reliabili

arXiv:2607.17751v2 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present MagicSelector, a joint optimization framework integrating Counterfactual task decomposition, Progressive reranking, and Dynamic Top-K, desi

arXiv:2607.19449v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluation frameworks for tool-augmented LLM agents focus overwhelmingly on capability metrics or explicit tool crashes, leaving silent infrastructure

arXiv:2607.07574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robotic surface swabbing requires sustained interaction between a compliant tool and heterogeneous environments, where accurate estimation of tip-level

arXiv:2607.05441v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Integrating external tools with Large Language Models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising paradigm for accomplishing complex tasks. Since LLMs still str

arXiv:2606.31392v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented vision-language models (VLMs) can solve multimodal, multi-step tasks by calling external tools, yet they remain fragile in practice. Exis

arXiv:2606.11652v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper investigates reinforcement learning (RL) methods for improving tool-calling capabilities in multimodal small language model (SLM) agents. Whi

arXiv:2606.10875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) rely on tool use to act as autonomous agents, yet often fail in multi-step execution due to insufficient tool-related knowl