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arXiv:2604.08281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) have achieved strong performance enhancement through scaling test time computation, but due to the inherent limitations of

arXiv:2604.19749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equipping LLMs with external tools effectively addresses internal reasoning limitations. However, it introduces a critical yet under-explored phenomenon

arXiv:2609.14157v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed with external tools that extend what they can do beyond their own knowledge. Tools help on tasks

arXiv:2510.07248v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Small language models (SLMs) enable scalable tool-augmented multi-agent systems where multiple SLMs handle subtasks orchestrated by a powerful coord

arXiv:2608.21544v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as tool-augmented agents, where responses can depend on tool calls and external observations ra

arXiv:2608.03327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hybrid computer-use agents can act through screenshots or call text tools. We find that having a tool available does not settle which way the effect goe

arXiv:2607.25718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly rely on invoking external tools to complete real-world tasks. Tool retrieval, which selects a small tas

arXiv:2610.08097v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mathematical problem solving often requires deterministic computational steps that agents delegate to tools and implicitly trust. Yet tools can fail s

arXiv:2610.09624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool calling, invoking external tools on demand, is central to agentic LLMs, yet the mechanism that decides whether a model calls a tool or responds d

arXiv:2609.30906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at natural language processing but struggle to interact with external environments. Tool learning provides a promisin

arXiv:2608.04719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent evaluations tell us that a model picked the wrong tool, but rarely why. We introduce canary tools: diagnostic probe tools planted in an agent's Mo

arXiv:2608.09682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented vision-language models increasingly 'think with images': they call crop, zoom, or code tools and reason over the returned pixels. However

arXiv:2608.00218v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic LLMs exhibit three consequential tool-use failures: invalid arguments (validity), unnecessary calls (over-calling), and omitted calls when tools

arXiv:2605.24660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Before an LLM agent can use a tool, a retrieval system must decide which candidate tools to show to the agent. How long should that shortlist be? Show

arXiv:2510.20036v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents rely on external tools to solve complex tasks, but real-world toolsets often contain redundant tools with overlapp

arXiv:2604.21816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a common interface for connecting large language model (LLM) agents to external tools, but its reliance on s

arXiv:2605.00136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented reasoning has become a popular direction for LLM-based agents, and it is widely assumed to improve reasoning and reliability. However, we

arXiv:2605.19852v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented reasoning has emerged as a promising direction for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Howe

arXiv:2606.02483v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented language agents speculatively issue likely future tool calls to hide latency, but those calls leak inferred user intent to external ser

arXiv:2609.37153v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented data agents rely on tool outputs for analytical decisions. Yet successful execution can return plausible but incorrect evidence, requirin

arXiv:2509.23292v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) has become a key approach for improving large reasoning models (LRMs) on complex problems. Prior work has mainly stu

arXiv:2605.09252v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented LLM agents tend to call tools indiscriminately, even when the model can answer directly. Each unnecessary call wastes API fees and latenc

arXiv:2609.30698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world multimodal misinformation often involves mixed forgery sources, requiring sample-specific detection strategies. Existing tool-augmented metho

arXiv:2608.08907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thinking with images allows a multimodal model to compensate for limited perception by invoking visual tools through code. Yet the prevailing SFT-then

arXiv:2511.09572v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: For agentic systems to use external tools to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, we need a large set of diverse and controllable tool-use environment

arXiv:2605.26637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most existing embodied intelligence methods formulate perception, reasoning, planning, and control within a unified parameterized policy. Yet these capa

arXiv:2604.12743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While recent research has explored AI tools' ability to classify the quality of mathematical tasks (arXiv:2603.03512), little is known about their capac

arXiv:2606.12451v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models deployed as agents over large tool catalogs face a critical tool-retrieval bottleneck. As embedding-based retrieval appr

arXiv:2609.39378v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world embodied tasks, from everyday activities to professional procedures, require agents to act under physical constraints while tracking evolving

arXiv:2608.17007v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills can specify procedural and resource obligations for tool use, and language models instantiate them as concrete programs. However, when mode

arXiv:2607.03953v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This study independently replicates and extends the Natural Language Tools (NLT) framework of Johnson et al.~(2025), which questions the use of struct

arXiv:2512.04069v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong qualitative visual understanding, but struggle with metrically precise spatial reasoning required f

arXiv:2505.21569v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although LLM-based agents are proven to master tool orchestration in scientific fields, particularly chemistry, their single-task performance

arXiv:2604.13519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool calling has greatly expanded the practical utility of large language models (LLMs) by enabling them to interact with external applications. As LLM

arXiv:2508.15754v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tool use is often assumed to monotonically improve reasoning, where external evidence is expected to help when relevant and be ignored when ir

arXiv:2606.28960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physicians now pose millions of clinical questions to AI tools each week, yet these tools are evaluated largely on hypothetical or exam-style questions,

arXiv:2606.03907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic AI coding tools write code with increasing autonomy and in doing so decide when to import a library and when to implement functionality from s

arXiv:2506.00886v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As large language models evolve into tool-augmented agents, a central question remains unresolved: when is external tool use actually justified? Exi

arXiv:2609.39018v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier models can control robots, but reasoning through every reach, grasp, and retreat makes manipulation slow and token-intensive. We revisit code

arXiv:2607.11818v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce MM-ToolSandBox, a benchmark and evaluation framework for visually grounded tool-calling agents. The framework provides a stateful

arXiv:2608.00326v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool calling allows large language models (LLMs) to invoke external computation during problem solving, a useful capability in various fields includ

arXiv:2608.00847v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most current visual trackers adopt a matching-based architecture trained exclusively on tracking datasets, whose performance gains depend heavily on the

arXiv:2606.20728v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision foundation tools such as open-vocabulary detectors, segmentation models, and post-processing operators are powerful building blocks for computer

arXiv:2512.16310v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based agents increasingly use multiple external tools to complete complex tasks. We study Tools Orchestration Privacy Risk (TOP-R): an age

arXiv:2605.28876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: CI failure logs are large (median 5k lines, max 200k in this corpus) and noisy. Coding agents that try to debug them depend on an upstream tool to red

arXiv:2604.01532v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM agents are beginning to invoke industrial asset-management tools through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), yet whether they can act reliably on