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Synthesize and Reward -- Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Tool Use in Live Environments
Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Asim Munawar, Kinjal Basu +4
Training LLMs to orchestrate multi-step tool calls is held back by three coupled obstacles: realistic stateful execution environments are costly to build, synthetic training querie…
Simulating Complex Multi-Turn Tool Calling Interactions in Stateless Execution Environments
Maxwell Crouse, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Kshitij Fadnis +6
Synthetic data has proven itself to be a valuable resource for tuning smaller, cost-effective language models to handle the complexities of multi-turn tool calling conversations. W…
ToolRM: Outcome Reward Models for Tool-Calling Large Language Models
Mayank Agarwal, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Kinjal Basu +4
As large language models (LLMs) increasingly interact with external tools, reward modeling for tool use has emerged as a critical yet underexplored area of research. Existing rewar…
Putting It All into Context: Simplifying Agents with LCLMs
Mingjian Jiang, Yangjun Ruan, Luis Lastras +2
Recent advances in language model (LM) agents have demonstrated significant potential for automating complex real-world tasks. To make progress on these difficult tasks, LM agent a…
R2D2: Remembering, Replaying and Dynamic Decision Making with a Reflective Agentic Memory
Tenghao Huang, Kinjal Basu, Ibrahim Abdelaziz +3
The proliferation of web agents necessitates advanced navigation and interaction strategies within complex web environments. Current models often struggle with efficient navigation…
NESTFUL: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs on Nested Sequences of API Calls
Kinjal Basu, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Kiran Kate +10
The resurgence of autonomous agents built using large language models (LLMs) to solve complex real-world tasks has brought increased focus on LLMs' fundamental ability of tool or f…
Granite-Function Calling Model: Introducing Function Calling Abilities via Multi-task Learning of Granular Tasks
Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Kinjal Basu, Mayank Agarwal +23
Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown tremendous promise in serving as the backbone to agentic systems, as demonstrated by their performance in multi-faceted, challengin…
Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence
Mayank Mishra, Matt Stallone, Gaoyuan Zhang +43
Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on code are revolutionizing the software development process. Increasingly, code LLMs are being integrated into software development environmen…
API-BLEND: A Comprehensive Corpora for Training and Benchmarking API LLMs
Kinjal Basu, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Subhajit Chaudhury +7
There is a growing need for Large Language Models (LLMs) to effectively use tools and external Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to plan and complete tasks. As such, there…
Formally Specifying the High-Level Behavior of LLM-Based Agents
Maxwell Crouse, Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Ramon Astudillo +7
Autonomous, goal-driven agents powered by LLMs have recently emerged as promising tools for solving challenging problems without the need for task-specific finetuned models that ca…
Learning Symbolic Rules over Abstract Meaning Representations for Textual Reinforcement Learning
Subhajit Chaudhury, Sarathkrishna Swaminathan, Daiki Kimura +8
Text-based reinforcement learning agents have predominantly been neural network-based models with embeddings-based representation, learning uninterpretable policies that often do n…
MISMATCH: Fine-grained Evaluation of Machine-generated Text with Mismatch Error Types
Keerthiram Murugesan, Sarathkrishna Swaminathan, Soham Dan +9
With the growing interest in large language models, the need for evaluating the quality of machine text compared to reference (typically human-generated) text has become focal atte…
Scalable Learning of Latent Language Structure With Logical Offline Cycle Consistency
Maxwell Crouse, Ramon Astudillo, Tahira Naseem +4
We introduce Logical Offline Cycle Consistency Optimization (LOCCO), a scalable, semi-supervised method for training a neural semantic parser. Conceptually, LOCCO can be viewed as…
Laziness Is a Virtue When It Comes to Compositionality in Neural Semantic Parsing
Maxwell Crouse, Pavan Kapanipathi, Subhajit Chaudhury +4
Nearly all general-purpose neural semantic parsers generate logical forms in a strictly top-down autoregressive fashion. Though such systems have achieved impressive results across…
CBR-iKB: A Case-Based Reasoning Approach for Question Answering over Incomplete Knowledge Bases
Dung Thai, Srinivas Ravishankar, Ibrahim Abdelaziz +7
Knowledge bases (KBs) are often incomplete and constantly changing in practice. Yet, in many question answering applications coupled with knowledge bases, the sparse nature of KBs…
A Benchmark for Generalizable and Interpretable Temporal Question Answering over Knowledge Bases
Sumit Neelam, Udit Sharma, Hima Karanam +22
Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) tasks that involve complex reasoning are emerging as an important research direction. However, most existing KBQA datasets focus primarily…
Learning to Transpile AMR into SPARQL
Mihaela Bornea, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Tahira Naseem +5
We propose a transition-based system to transpile Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) into SPARQL for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA). This allows us to delegate part of…
A Two-Stage Approach towards Generalization in Knowledge Base Question Answering
Srinivas Ravishankar, June Thai, Ibrahim Abdelaziz +5
Most existing approaches for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) focus on a specific underlying knowledge base either because of inherent assumptions in the approach, or becau…
SYGMA: System for Generalizable Modular Question Answering OverKnowledge Bases
Sumit Neelam, Udit Sharma, Hima Karanam +21
Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) tasks that in-volve complex reasoning are emerging as an important re-search direction. However, most KBQA systems struggle withgeneralizab…
Combining Rules and Embeddings via Neuro-Symbolic AI for Knowledge Base Completion
Prithviraj Sen, Breno W. S. R. Carvalho, Ibrahim Abdelaziz +4
Recent interest in Knowledge Base Completion (KBC) has led to a plethora of approaches based on reinforcement learning, inductive logic programming and graph embeddings. In particu…
Generative Relation Linking for Question Answering over Knowledge Bases
Gaetano Rossiello, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Ibrahim Abdelaziz +4
Relation linking is essential to enable question answering over knowledge bases. Although there are various efforts to improve relation linking performance, the current state-of-th…