arXiv AI

Debate-to-Skill: Capability-Bound Process Supervision for Industrial Query-to-Agent Annotation

The paper introduces Debate‑to‑Skill, a capability‑bound process supervision method for annotating industrial query‑to‑agent tasks. It addresses failures caused by confusing topical relevance with executable capability, especially for long‑tail and boundary‑sensitive requests. By employing reusable decision principles, structured deliberation, verifier‑based verdict extraction, and disagreement‑driven refinement, the approach is evaluated against direct‑label supervision, reasoning‑SFT, and structural ablations on a Query2Agent benchmark, focusing on grey‑zone cases where semantic relatedness and executable capability diverge.

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Aug 9

SkillReason: Reasoning-Enhanced Agent Skill Retrieval for Implicit User Requests

Large language model agents increasingly rely on reusable skills to extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowl- edge. However, retrieving the appropriate skill from a large- scale library remains challenging because realistic user re- quests are often concise and underspecified, stating only the task goal while leaving the required capabilities and execu- tion steps implicit.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

BADGER: Bridging Agentic and Deterministic Evaluation for Generative Enterprise Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 02109v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise AI systems that translate natural language into SQL queries and orchestrate multi-step agentic reasoning pipelines require evaluation approaches fundamentally different from academic benchmarks.

By Shannon Serrao, Soumitra Chatterjee, Dorina Strori, Abhishek Sharma, Nathan Miller
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
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

Agent Seer: Synthesizing Scenarios from Specification Understanding

Agent Seer is a pipeline that automatically synthesizes realistic evaluation scenarios for AI agents that use external tools, using only the tool’s specification (function names, natural‑language descriptions, and typed parameter schemas). Starting from a single Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification, it enriches raw schemas, generates graded scenarios with synthetic tool outputs, and expands them into mock‑data‑grounded multi‑turn dialogues that demonstrate strong tool‑calling correctness and conversational coherence. Across seven diverse MCP specifications, the pipeline achieves high quality, with parameter‑schema complexity emerging as the main driver of quality variation and argument‑value accuracy identified as the dominant failure mode.

By Harish Karumuri, Mahesh Vemula, David Lopes Pegna
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

CoHyDE: Iterative Co-Training of LLM Rewriter & Dense Encoder for Tool Retrieval

CoHyDE is an iterative co‑training framework that jointly trains a dense encoder and an LLM rewriter for tool retrieval from large API catalogs. The encoder is fine‑tuned with InfoNCE on catalog‑style hypothetical descriptions generated by the rewriter, while the rewriter is preference‑aligned via DPO against the encoder’s retrieval scores. On a 10k‑tool subset of ToolBench, three rounds of CoHyDE outperform the best single‑component baseline by 2.5 pp NDCG@5 on standard queries and 6.3 pp on vague queries, with the largest gains on the hardest vague tier.

By Vaishali Senthil, Ashutosh Hathidara, Sebastian Schreiber