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ASA: Backbone-Training-Free Representation Engineering for Tool-Calling Agents

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arXiv:2602. 04935v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adapting LLM agents to domain-specific tool calling remains notably brittle under evolving interfaces.

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