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20242026
most citedToolACE: Winning the Points of LLM Function Calling

3 citations · 4 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AI2026

CUE-Mem: Benchmarking Long-Term User Memory via Implicit Cues in Multimodal Conversations

Yulin Hu, Yanyan Zhao, Zimo Long +6

Long-term memory is essential for multimodal agents that interact with users across sustained conversations. However, user memories are not always explicitly stated: they may also…

cs.CL2026

Towards Scalable RLVR: Multimodal Instruction Following Data Synthesis and Distillation

Yirong Zeng, Zhang Sai, Yuxian Wang +4

Multimodal instruction following (MMIF) is crucial for building generalist agents. However, current training paradigms rely heavily on Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), which often lea…

cs.AI2026

EnvCraft: Synthesizing Executable Environments in Agentic RL for Claw-like Agent

Yirong Zeng, Shen You, Jinhang Feng +8

The paradigm of LLMs has rapidly shifted from passive language interfaces to autonomous Claw-like agents that execute long-horizon tasks across stateful workspaces. While Agentic R…

cs.CL2026

TinyJudge: Unverifiable Constraint Alignment via Lightweight Specialist Ensembles

Yirong Zeng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding +9

Instruction Following (IF) is a core capability of LLMs, requiring strict adherence to diverse constraints, ranging from verifiable ones (e.g., output length) to unverifiable ones…

cs.AI2026

Safety Geometry Collapse in Multimodal LLMs and Adaptive Drift Correction

Jiahe Guo, Xiangran Guo, Jiaxuan Chen +6

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often fail to transfer safety capabilities learned in the text modality to semantically equivalent non-text inputs, revealing a persistent…

cs.AI2026

AutoTool: Automatic Scaling of Tool-Use Capabilities in RL via Decoupled Entropy Constraints

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yufei Liu +9

Tool use represents a critical capability for AI agents, with recent advances focusing on leveraging reinforcement learning (RL) to scale up the explicit reasoning process to achie…

cs.AI2026

The Tool-Overuse Illusion: Why Does LLM Prefer External Tools over Internal Knowledge?

Yirong Zeng, Shen You, Yufei Liu +9

Equipping LLMs with external tools effectively addresses internal reasoning limitations. However, it introduces a critical yet under-explored phenomenon: tool overuse, the unnecess…

cs.LG2026

Precision over Diversity: High-Precision Reward Generalizes to Robust Instruction Following

Yirong Zeng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding +9

A central belief in scaling reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards for instruction following (IF) tasks is that, a diverse mixture of verifiable hard and unverifiable soft…

cs.LG2025

Tool Zero: Training Tool-Augmented LLMs via Pure RL from Scratch

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou +9

Training tool-augmented LLMs has emerged as a promising approach to enhancing language models' capabilities for complex tasks. The current supervised fine-tuning paradigm relies on…

cs.CL2025

iTool: Reinforced Fine-Tuning with Dynamic Deficiency Calibration for Advanced Tool Use

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yuxian Wang +8

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools is a promising approach to enhance their capabilities, especially for complex tasks. Synthesizing tool-use data through…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

ToolACE: Winning the Points of LLM Function Calling

Weiwen Liu, Xu Huang, Xingshan Zeng +24

Function calling significantly extends the application boundary of large language models, where high-quality and diverse training data is critical for unlocking this capability. Ho…

cs.CL2024

Concise and Precise Context Compression for Tool-Using Language Models

Yang Xu, Yunlong Feng, Honglin Mu +9

Through reading the documentation in the context, tool-using language models can dynamically extend their capability using external tools. The cost is that we have to input lengthy…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Planning, Creation, Usage: Benchmarking LLMs for Comprehensive Tool Utilization in Real-World Complex Scenarios

Shijue Huang, Wanjun Zhong, Jianqiao Lu +10

The recent trend of using Large Language Models (LLMs) as tool agents in real-world applications underscores the necessity for comprehensive evaluations of their capabilities, part…