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cs.AI2026
Tunable Tool-Call Rates in LLM Agents via Representation Steering
Yuqi Chen, Vincent Siu, Yang Liu +2
Deciding whether to call a tool is a core competence of an LLM agent, and a costly one to get wrong: needless calls add latency, accrue cost, and may trigger irreversible side effe…
cs.AI2026
Controlling Tool Use with Heading-Specific Activation Steering
Yuqi Chen, Vincent Siu, Yang Liu +2
Tool-augmented large language models extend their capabilities beyond parametric knowledge through external tools, but tend to invoke them unnecessarily. We investigate whether too…