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most citedTool Learning with Large Language Models: A Survey

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25 papers

cs.CL2026

TurnSight: Turn-Level Hindsight Self-Distillation for Tool-Integrated Reasoning

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Hengyi Cai +4

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) enables LLMs to solve complex tasks through iterative tool interactions. However, existing reinforcement learning methods often rely on trajectory-l…

cs.IR2026

MARA: A Multimodal Adaptive Retrieval-Augmented Framework for Document Question Answering

Hui Wu, Haoquan Zhai, Yuchen Li +8

Retrieval-based multimodal document QA aims to identify and integrate relevant information from visually rich documents with complex multimodal structures. While retrieval-augmente…

cs.AI2026

AdaFuse: Accelerating Dynamic Adapter Inference via Token-Level Pre-Gating and Fused Kernel Optimization

Qiyang Li, Rui Kong, Yuchen Li +5

The integration of dynamic, sparse structures like Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) with parameter-efficient adapters (e.g., LoRA) is a powerful technique for enhancing Large Language Mode…

cs.CL2026

AgentSkiller: Scaling Generalist Agent Intelligence through Semantically Integrated Cross-Domain Data Synthesis

Zexu Sun, Bokai Ji, Hengyi Cai +4

Large Language Model agents demonstrate potential in solving real-world problems via tools, yet generalist intelligence is bottlenecked by scarce high-quality, long-horizon data. E…

cs.AI2026

Not All Preferences Deserve Gradients: Understanding Gradient Utility in Offline Reasoning Alignment

Hui Wu, Hengyi Cai, Jinman Zhao +6

Offline preference optimization aligns reasoning models from fixed chosen--rejected pairs, yet standard methods apply gradient updates from every pair regardless of its training va…

cs.CL2026

MatchTIR: Fine-Grained Supervision for Tool-Integrated Reasoning via Bipartite Matching

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Hengyi Cai +3

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) empowers large language models (LLMs) to tackle complex tasks by interleaving reasoning steps with external tool interactions. However, existing rei…

cs.DC2026

FlexSpec: Frozen Drafts Meet Evolving Targets in Edge-Cloud Collaborative LLM Speculative Decoding

Yuchen Li, Rui Kong, Zhonghao Lyu +11

Deploying large language models (LLMs) in mobile and edge computing environments is constrained by limited on-device resources, scarce wireless bandwidth, and frequent model evolut…

cs.AI2025

Efficient Thought Space Exploration Through Strategic Intervention

Ziheng Li, Hengyi Cai, Xiaochi Wei +4

While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate emerging reasoning capabilities, current inference-time expansion methods incur prohibitive computational costs by exhaustive samplin…

cs.CL2025

AdaSwitch: Balancing Exploration and Guidance in Knowledge Distillation via Adaptive Switching

Jingyu Peng, Maolin Wang, Hengyi Cai +5

Small language models (SLMs) are crucial for applications with strict latency and computational constraints, yet achieving high performance remains challenging. Knowledge distillat…

cs.LG2025

Solving the Granularity Mismatch: Hierarchical Preference Learning for Long-Horizon LLM Agents

Heyang Gao, Zexu Sun, Erxue Min +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) as autonomous agents are increasingly tasked with solving complex, long-horizon problems. Aligning these agents via preference-based offline methods li…

cs.LG2025

CurES: From Gradient Analysis to Efficient Curriculum Learning for Reasoning LLMs

Yongcheng Zeng, Zexu Sun, Bokai Ji +7

Curriculum learning plays a crucial role in enhancing the training efficiency of large language models (LLMs) on reasoning tasks. However, existing methods often fail to adequately…

cs.LG2025

Staying in the Sweet Spot: Responsive Reasoning Evolution via Capability-Adaptive Hint Scaffolding

Ziheng Li, Zexu Sun, Jinman Zhao +8

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has achieved remarkable success in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing RLV…

cs.CV2025

VPN: Visual Prompt Navigation

Shuo Feng, Zihan Wang, Yuchen Li +6

While natural language is commonly used to guide embodied agents, the inherent ambiguity and verbosity of language often hinder the effectiveness of language-guided navigation in c…

cs.IR2025

CTR-Guided Generative Query Suggestion in Conversational Search

Erxue Min, Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Xihong Yang +7

Generating effective query suggestions in conversational search requires aligning model outputs with user preferences, which is challenging due to sparse and noisy click signals. W…

cs.CL2025

Towards AI Search Paradigm

Yuchen Li, Hengyi Cai, Rui Kong +20

In this paper, we introduce the AI Search Paradigm, a comprehensive blueprint for next-generation search systems capable of emulating human information processing and decision-maki…

cs.IR2025

From Prompting to Alignment: A Generative Framework for Query Recommendation

Erxue Min, Hsiu-Yuan Huang, Xihong Yang +7

In modern search systems, search engines often suggest relevant queries to users through various panels or components, helping refine their information needs. Traditionally, these…

cs.CL2024

PA-RAG: RAG Alignment via Multi-Perspective Preference Optimization

Jiayi Wu, Hengyi Cai, Lingyong Yan +5

The emergence of Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has alleviated the issues of outdated and hallucinatory content in the generation of large language models (LLMs), yet it stil…

cs.CL2024

Cross-model Control: Improving Multiple Large Language Models in One-time Training

Jiayi Wu, Hao Sun, Hengyi Cai +5

The number of large language models (LLMs) with varying parameter scales and vocabularies is increasing. While they deliver powerful performance, they also face a set of common opt…

cs.CL2024

AdaSwitch: Adaptive Switching between Small and Large Agents for Effective Cloud-Local Collaborative Learning

Hao Sun, Jiayi Wu, Hengyi Cai +6

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have been remarkable. Users face a choice between using cloud-based LLMs for generation quality and deploying local-based LLMs f…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

From Exploration to Mastery: Enabling LLMs to Master Tools via Self-Driven Interactions

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Xiaochi Wei +5

Tool learning enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with external environments by invoking tools, serving as an effective strategy to mitigate the limitations inherent i…

cs.CL2024★ 86 cited

Tool Learning with Large Language Models: A Survey

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Xiaochi Wei +5

Recently, tool learning with large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a promising paradigm for augmenting the capabilities of LLMs to tackle highly complex problems. Despite gro…

cs.CL2024★ 8 cited

Towards Completeness-Oriented Tool Retrieval for Large Language Models

Changle Qu, Sunhao Dai, Xiaochi Wei +5

Recently, integrating external tools with Large Language Models (LLMs) has gained significant attention as an effective strategy to mitigate the limitations inherent in their pre-t…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

XLBench: A Benchmark for Extremely Long Context Understanding with Long-range Dependencies

Xuanfan Ni, Hengyi Cai, Xiaochi Wei +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse tasks but are constrained by their small context window sizes. Various efforts have been propos…

cs.CV2024

Text-Video Retrieval via Variational Multi-Modal Hypergraph Networks

Qian Li, Lixin Su, Jiashu Zhao +6

Text-video retrieval is a challenging task that aims to identify relevant videos given textual queries. Compared to conventional textual retrieval, the main obstacle for text-video…