arXiv:2606. 03054v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented vision-language agents can acquire external perceptual evidence through OCR, detection, segmentation, and other tools, but executing every proposed tool call is costly and sometimes unnecessary.
By Anjie Liu, Yan Song, Zhixun Chen, Ziqin Gong, Zhongwei Yu, Jun Wang
UniToolCall introduces a unified framework for tool-use in large language model agents, standardizing toolset construction, dataset generation, and evaluation. The framework aggregates over 22,000 tools and creates a hybrid training corpus of more than 390,000 instances by combining ten public datasets with synthetically generated, structurally controlled trajectories. It models diverse interaction patterns—single‑hop vs. multi‑hop, single‑turn vs. multi‑turn, serial vs. parallel execution—and adds an Anchor Linkage mechanism to enforce cross‑turn dependencies, while converting seven public benchmarks into a common Query–Action–Observation–Answer format for fine‑grained evaluation.
By Yijuan Liang, Xinghao Chen, Yifan Ge, Ziyi Wu, Hao Wu, Changyu Zeng, Wei Xing, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv:2610.14774v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly expected to orchestrate diverse tools over long-horizon tasks. Existing agents typically use Direct Tool...
By Hao Li, Keqing He, Longtao Zheng, Junlong Li, Weihao Zeng, Qian Liu, Yuzhen Huang
arXiv:2609.36679v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Machine learning engineering (MLE) agents have made substantial progress, but learning through ML experimentation remains costly in time and computatio...
By Xin Yu, Lizhu Zhang, Jiamu Bai, Yanhong Wu, Zellux Wang, Serena Li, Weiwei Li, Lingzhou Xue, Xiangjun Fan, Bo Peng
arXiv:2606. 12882v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as agents for long-horizon tasks, yet their performance is shaped not only by model capability and environment design, but also by the harness that mediates agent--environment interaction.
By Xiaoxuan Wang, Haixin Wang, Alexander Taylor, Jason Cong, Yizhou Sun, Wei Wang
The paper introduces RobustBench‑TC, a benchmark that tests tool‑use language agents under 22 real‑world perturbations affecting observations, actions, rewards, and transitions. Experiments on 21 models show that observation noise has minimal impact, while reward‑relevant and transition noise drastically reduce accuracy, and model size alone does not mitigate these gaps. The authors propose ToolRL‑DR, a domain‑randomized reinforcement‑learning recipe that improves robustness, retaining most clean accuracy and narrowing performance gaps even on unseen transition perturbations.
By Xiaolin Zhou, Aojie Yuan, Zheng Luo, Zipeng Ling, Xixiao Pan, Yicheng Gao, Haiyue Zhang, Jiate Li, Shuli Jiang, Prince Zizhuang Wang, Zixuan Zhu, Jinbo Liu, Ryan A. Rossi, Hua Wei, Xiyang Hu