2 papers
cs.SE2026
Fabrication After Tool Failure: Tool-Augmented Agents Assert Values Their Tools Did Not Return
Arham Sethi, Arsen Kenzhebayev, Saanvi Paturi +3
Tool-augmented language models are evaluated on whether they reach the right answer, not on whether they report honestly when a tool fails to supply one. We isolate this post-failu…
cs.CL2026
When Tools Get in the Way: The Effect of Unnecessary Tool Availability on LLM Answering
Saanvi Paturi, Arsen Kenzhebayev, Arham Sethi +3
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed with external tools that extend what they can do beyond their own knowledge. Tools help on tasks that need external informati…