Toward SLM-based agentic task-tool intent matching

The paper proposes using Small Language Models (SLMs) as a task‑tool relevance classifier to verify each tool call made by AI agents. By evaluating every selected tool against the assigned task, the SLM provides a relevance signal that can be used for downstream enforcement. The authors introduce a novel dataset of multi‑tool tasks across distinct Model Context Protocol servers and explore prompt‑optimization, supervised fine‑tuning, and reinforcement learning (GRPO) to optimize and specialize the SLMs.

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• llms
• agents
• reinforcement-learning
• fine-tuning