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15 Sept 2026

Fabrication After Tool Failure: Tool-Augmented Agents Assert Values Their Tools Did Not Return

Model ReleasesDGX agent

arXiv:2609.14758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-augmented language models are evaluated on whether they reach the right answer, not on whether they report honestly when a tool fails to supply o

When Tools Get in the Way: The Effect of Unnecessary Tool Availability on LLM Answering

ResearchDGX agent

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

10 Sept 2026

Agents Trust Tools Too Much: Measuring Reliance on Unreliable Tools

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arXiv:2609.05587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing evaluations of tool-using agents primarily measure whether an agent can successfully complete diverse tasks with tools. These evaluations gener

When Tools Hurt LLM Reasoning: State-Dependent Belief Revision under External Evidence

Local AiDGX agent

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

10 Apr 2026

When to Trust Tools? Adaptive Tool Trust Calibration For Tool-Integrated Math Reasoning

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

23 Apr 2026

The Tool-Overuse Illusion: Why Does LLM Prefer External Tools over Internal Knowledge?

SafetyDGX agent

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

21 Apr 2026

Don't Adapt Small Language Models for Tools; Adapt Tool Schemas to the Models

AgentsDGX agent

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

25 Aug 2026

Forgotten in Weights, Recovered by Tools: Agentic Tool Unlearning for LLM Agents

AgentsDGX agent

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

5 Aug 2026

Screenshots or Tools? Eliciting Tool Use and Managing Multimodal Context in Hybrid GUI-MCP Computer-Use Agents

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

SpatialCLI: Learning to Reason With Spatial Tools, Then Without Them

Model ReleasesDGX agent

arXiv:2607.27703v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in embodied agents to interpret visual inputs, reason about spatial relationships, and make task

29 Jul 2026

Tools Are Not Islands: Set-Level Tool Retrieval for LLM Agents via Query-Conditioned Hyperedge Prediction

AgentsDGX agent

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

7 Oct 2026

When Tools Lie: Reliability of Mathematical Agents Under Corrupted Tool Feedback

SafetyDGX agent

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

8 Oct 2026

How Do Agentic LLMs Decide to Call Tools? A Tool-Call Vector Shaped by Suppression

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

28 Sept 2026

ToolSearcher: Optimizing Tool Selection at Scale via Reinforcement Learning

AgentsDGX agent

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

MM-VeriAgent: Learning to Use Extensive Tools to Verify Multimodal Misinformation with Reinforcement Learning

SafetyDGX agent

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

6 Aug 2026

Diagnosing Tool-Selection Reasoning in LLM Agents with Canary Tools

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

11 Aug 2026

Thinking With Tools, Not With Pixels: Tool Calls as Text Scaffolds for Visual Reasoning

AgentsDGX agent

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

ToolVision: Learning When and How to Use Visual Tools with Capability-Aligned Supervision

AgentsDGX agent

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

Learning to Coordinate Symbolic Tools: LLM Agents for Verified Sum-of-Squares Certificates

SafetyDGX agent

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

4 Aug 2026

A Few Neurons Reveal When LLMs Misuse Tools: Sparse Detection and Selective Steering for Reliable Tool Use

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

Models as Tools: An Agentic Coordination Framework for Unified Multimodal Visual Tracking

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

26 May 2026

How Many Tools Should an LLM Agent See? A Chance-Corrected Answer

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

12 May 2026

ToolScope: Enhancing LLM Agent Tool Use through Tool Merging and Context-Aware Filtering

AgentsDGX agent

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

LLM Agents Already Know When to Call Tools -- Even Without Reasoning

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

PHMForge: Evaluating LLM Agents on Industrial Prognostics through MCP-Native, Algorithm-Grounded Tools

SafetyDGX agent

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

Useful for Exploration, Risky for Precision: Evaluating AI Tools in Academic Research

ResearchDGX agent

arXiv:2605.10125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being incorporated into scientific research workflows with the potential to enhance efficiency in tasks such as d

24 Apr 2026

Tool Attention Is All You Need: Dynamic Tool Gating and Lazy Schema Loading for Eliminating the MCP/Tools Tax in Scalable Agentic Workflows

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

5 May 2026

Are Tools All We Need? Unveiling the Tool-Use Tax in LLM Agents

AgentsDGX agent

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

20 May 2026

Are Tools Always Beneficial? Learning to Invoke Tools Adaptively for Dual-Mode Multimodal LLM Reasoning

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

2 Jun 2026

Ghost Tool Calls: Issue-Time Privacy for Speculative Agent Tools

AgentsDGX agent

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

SpaceTools: Tool-Augmented Spatial Reasoning via Double Interactive RL

AgentsDGX agent

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

Agent Tools Orchestration Leaks More: Dataset, Benchmark, and Mitigation

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

30 Sept 2026

When Tools Silently Lie: Evaluating and Mitigating Blind Compliance in Tool-Augmented Data Agents

AgentsDGX agent

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

30 Jun 2026

Learning How to Use Tools, Not Just When: Pattern-Aware Tool-Integrated Reasoning

TutorialsDGX agent

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

Expert Evaluation of Clinical AI Tools on Real Point-of-Care Clinical Queries

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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,

28 May 2026

SynthTools: A Framework for Scaling Synthetic Tools for Agent Development

AgentsDGX agent

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

27 May 2026

Enabling Extensible Embodied Capabilities with Tools

SafetyDGX agent

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

15 Apr 2026

Can AI Tools Transform Low-Demand Math Tasks? An Evaluation of Task Modification Capabilities

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

OctoTools: An Agentic Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex Reasoning

AgentsDGX agent

arXiv:2502.11271v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Solving complex reasoning tasks may involve visual understanding, domain knowledge retrieval, numerical calculation, and multi-step reasoning.

31 Aug 2026

ToolSense: A Diagnostic Framework for Auditing Parametric Tool Knowledge in LLMs

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

1 Oct 2026

EgoTools: Towards Tool-Centric Reasoning in Real-World Egocentric Videos

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

Make Code as Policy Great Again: Frontier Agents Write, Call, and Evolve Robot Tools

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

19 Aug 2026

SkillEffect: Checked Lowering for Memory-Bounded Agent Tools

AgentsDGX agent

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

7 Jul 2026

The Remarkable Effectiveness of Providing AI Agents with Natural Language Tools: A Replication Study Validating NLT Performance Across 14 Models

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

20 Apr 2026

ChemAmp: Amplified Chemistry Tools via Composable Agents

AgentsDGX agent

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

16 Apr 2026

ToolSpec: Accelerating Tool Calling via Schema-Aware and Retrieval-Augmented Speculative Decoding

AgentsDGX agent

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

3 Jun 2026

The Impact of Configuring Agentic AI Coding Tools on Build-vs-Buy Decisions: A Study Protocol

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

7 May 2026

Position: Agent Should Invoke External Tools ONLY When Epistemically Necessary

AgentsDGX agent

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

24 Aug 2026

MM-ToolSandBox: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Visual Tool-Calling Agents

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

23 Jun 2026

VTOS: Learning to Orchestrate Vision Tools by Co-Searching Solutions and Observers

AgentsDGX agent

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

29 May 2026

LogDx-CI: Benchmarking Log Reduction Tools for LLM Root-Cause Diagnosis

Model ReleasesDGX agent

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

14 Apr 2026

Use of AI Tools: Guidelines to Maintain Academic Integrity in Computing Colleges

TutorialsDGX agent

arXiv:2604.11111v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of AI tools such as ChatGPT has significantly transformed academic practices, offering considerable benefits for both students and

2 Oct 2026

Spatial Strategies, Not Actions: Vector-Quantized Geodesics as Tools for LLM-Driven Agents

AgentsDGX agent

arXiv:2610.00613v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM) based agents are often criticized for lacking spatial understanding and mainly exploiting statistical text patterns. We inves

Rules to Tools: Executable Checks for LLM Agents in Scientific Computing

AgentsDGX agent

arXiv:2610.00313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific coding agents receive equations, boundary conditions, and output requirements in writing, then must assess the programs they revise. Rules to

10 Aug 2026

Taxonomy-Driven Analysis of Open-Source AI Risk Mitigation Tools

ApplicationsDGX agent

arXiv:2608.07446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in enterprise settings has introduced operational, security, and governance risks. As generative AI app

15 May 2026

Latency-Quality Routing for Functionally Equivalent Tools in LLM Agents

Model ReleasesDGX agent

arXiv:2605.14241v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented LLM agents increasingly access the same tool type through multiple functionally equivalent providers, such as web-search APIs, retrievers

12 Oct 2026

When LLMs Sit Above Diagnostic Tools: Unrealized Complementarity in Industrial Fault Diagnosis

ResearchDGX agent

arXiv:2610.05031v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as integration layers above specialized tools, but a stronger component does not necessarily produce a s

22 Sept 2026

Toollery: Scaling LLM Agents to Thousands of Skills and Tools

Model ReleasesDGX agent

arXiv:2609.22218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As LLM agents are exposed to hundreds to tens of thousands of skills, tools, and API functions, full-library prompting becomes costly, slow, and less

1 Sept 2026

Evaluating LLM-based AI agents integrated with materials synthesis tools: the case of atomic layer deposition

AgentsDGX agent

arXiv:2608.29309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This work provides an overview of the different strategies that can be used to evaluate the performance of AI models and agents based on large languag

23 Jul 2026

A Systematic Evaluation of Traditional Privacy Policy Analysis Tools Against LLMs

Model ReleasesDGX agent

arXiv:2607.17075v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advent of LLMs has significantly changed the research on privacy policy and data compliance analysis by enabling tasks that previously req

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