2 papers
cs.SE2026
Stdlib or Third-Party? Empirical Performance and Correctness of LLM-Assisted Zero-Dependency Python Libraries
Peng Ding, Rick Stevens
Third-party Python libraries introduce dependency management overhead, supply chain risk, and deployment friction in constrained environments. A natural question is how much of thi…
cs.AI2025
Unified Tool Integration for LLMs: A Protocol-Agnostic Approach to Function Calling
Peng Ding, Rick Stevens
The proliferation of tool-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) has created a fragmented ecosystem where developers must navigate multiple protocols, manual schema definitions, an…