ToolMATH: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Long-Horizon Tool Use under Systematic Tool-Catalog Constraints

arXiv:2602.21265v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce ToolMATH, a math-grounded diagnostic benchmark for evaluating long-horizon tool use under controllable tool-catalog conditions. ToolMATH converts stepwise MATH solutions into reusable Python tools with natural-language descriptions and typed schemas, and pairs each problem with a tool environment requiring sequential tool use, intermediate-output reuse, and logically connected tool-call chains. ToolMATH controls tool availability and catalog difficulty by constructing gold tools and graded distractors with varying similarity to gold tools. ToolMATH also incorporates behavior-conditioned metrics, enabling diagnostic evaluation beyond final accuracy. Building on these measurements, ToolMATH emphasizes three evaluation axes: (1) Adaptability measures how much Gold-only success is retained when gold tools are replaced entirely by distractors; (2) Robustness measures stability under adding distractors as a noise; and (3) Tool Connectivity measures whether models preserve accuracy over long executed tool-call chains. Furthermore, trace-level failure analyses characterize how models fail under each tool-catalog condition. Together, these diagnostics reveal distinct model profiles: reliable tool use, tool avoidance, adaptive substitution, and impacts of unreliable tool catalogs. Overall, ToolMATH provides a controlled testbed for evaluating how language models adapt to changing tool availability, remain robust to distractors, and maintain correctness across long-horizon tool-use trajectories.

Source: arXiv cs.CL | 2026-05-19