arXiv AI

SchemaRouter: Field-Aware Tool Routing for Efficient Heterogeneous Agentic RAG

arXiv AI
Aug 26

Hybrid Semantic Tool Discovery for Enterprise MCP Gateway: Architecture and Implementation

Hybrid Semantic Tool Discovery for Enterprise MCP Gateway presents SCOUT, a system that addresses two major challenges in large language model (LLM) agent tool usage: a context‑engineering bottleneck and a tool discoverability barrier. SCOUT reframes tool exposure as a context‑selection problem, injecting only relevant tools into the model’s context window and providing two MCP meta‑tools—tool_search and execute_tool—to perform hybrid retrieval via BM25 and dense vector search. In production at PayPal, SCOUT cuts MCP tool‑token consumption by 99%, dramatically reducing per‑query inference cost while remaining model‑agnostic and requiring no client‑side changes.

By Olympia Saha, Amy Wang, Srinivasan Manoharan
arXiv AI
Aug 13

VAKRA: Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning Across APIs and Retrieval Under Tool-Use Policies

arXiv:2608. 12282v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agents deployed in enterprise settings must reason across structured APIs and document collections, yet existing benchmarks evaluate these capabilities in isolation.

By Ankita Rajaram Naik, Anupama Murthi, Benjamin Elder, Siyu Huo, Raavi Gupta, Abhinav Jain, Praveen Venkateswaran, Abdulhamid Adebayo, Danish Contractor
arXiv AI
1d ago

Harness Engineering in LLM Tool Use via Agent-Native Reusable Tool Primitives

The paper introduces Tool Primitives, a design that replaces rigid API schemas with natural language interfaces for tool calling, enabling seamless inter-tool communication. It builds ToolFace, a repository of over 25,000 functions that LLMs can dynamically retrieve, and HEART, a harness engineering framework that orchestrates tool use with planning, routing, and verification. Experiments show HEART outperforms fine‑tuned models and leading commercial LLMs while cutting API costs by up to 85%.

By Haibo Jin, Suijin Wang, Xucheng Yu, Haojing Luo, Haohan Wang
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

RENSA: Rich Environment Metadata to Navigate Shared and Distributed Endpoints for Automated Federated SPARQL Query Generation

RENSA is a federated SPARQL query generation framework that extends SPARQL Builder Metadata to include class and authority information, enabling precise source selection and semantic constraint inference without runtime ASK queries. The generated metadata profiles occupy less than 1% of the original dataset triples, providing storage‑efficient insights. Evaluation on the LargeRDFBench benchmark shows that RENSA matches state‑of‑the‑art source selection performance while eliminating runtime communication overhead.

By Victor Eiti Yamamoto, Takeda Hideaki, Yamamoto Yasunori
arXiv AI
Jul 28

TRACE: Business Rule-Grounded Reasoning Curriculum for Knowledge-Preserving Parametric Tool Retrieval in Enterprise LLMs

arXiv:2607. 22639v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parametric retrieval enables LLMs to retrieve tools implicitly by assigning each API a unique virtual token and training the model to generate it via constrained beam search.

By Sai Shruthi Sistla, Ashutosh Hathidara, Christopher Toukmaji, Mayank Shrivastava, Karthikeyan Asokkumar