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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.
arXiv:2609.05837v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents are increasingly deployed in real-world applications through tool-use APIs, yet training them for specific environments remains fundam...
SWE-Prime introduces a two-stage supervised fine-tuning data selection process for large language models tackling software issues. The first stage filters entire trajectories by quality and representativeness, while the second stage selects meaningful semantic segments based on contribution, learnability, and risk. Experiments on SWE-Bench Pro and Verified demonstrate that training on just 10% of trajectories chosen by SWE-Prime surpasses full-dataset training, achieving up to 12.2% and 24.2% performance gains.
SWE-Prime introduces a two‑stage, multi‑granularity supervised fine‑tuning (SFT) data selection process for large language models tackling real‑world software problems. The first stage filters entire trajectories based on process quality, result quality, and representativeness, while the second stage evaluates semantic segments for contribution, learnability, and risk, keeping all segments in context but only penalizing selected ones during training. Experiments on SWE‑Bench Pro and Verified demonstrate that training on just 10% of trajectories chosen by SWE‑Prime outperforms full‑dataset training, achieving up to 12.2% and 24.2% relative gains.
PG-SFT: Balancing Capability Acquisition and Retention in Offline Agent Fine-Tuning explores how to maintain a model’s existing abilities while teaching it new ones through supervised fine‑tuning on offline agent trajectories. The authors compare standard SFT, KL‑penalty, and update‑magnitude constraints, finding that these methods still degrade non‑target capabilities. They introduce Privilege‑Guided SFT (PG‑SFT), which uses turn‑level information gain to modulate supervision strength, achieving a better trade‑off between acquiring new skills and preserving existing ones, though with a slight drop in target‑task performance.
The paper investigates how multi‑turn reinforcement learning (RL) improves large‑language‑model agents, focusing on the sensitivity of performance gains to interaction constraints such as sampling breadth ($K$) and interaction depth ($T$). Using the metric $Pass@(K,T)$, the authors find that trajectory‑level RL benefits require sufficient turn budgets and that RL mainly enhances error recovery and long‑horizon resilience rather than single‑step decision quality. To address the budget dependence, they discuss process supervision signals and propose BudgetMix RL, which varies interaction budgets during training and shows robust performance across different execution settings.