arXiv AI By Yuqing Yang, Yurong Liu, Deqing Fu, Manav Garg, Sravan Babu Bodapati, Fatma Ozcan, Alon Y. Halevy, Jiani Zhang

Unsupervised Tool Evolution for Coding Agents in Data-Lake Analytics

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The paper introduces TEAL, an unsupervised framework that allows coding agents to automatically build and refine reusable tools for data‑lake analytics without requiring labeled questions. TEAL employs an Explorer that proposes tools from the data lake and a Critic that evaluates proposals based on the agent’s own execution traces, retaining only changes that the agent adopts without extra steps. Experiments on KramaBench and LakeQA show that TEAL consistently improves performance across multiple LLM workers, especially under tight step budgets, and that synthetic question generation (TEAL‑Q) can match real‑question evolution.

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