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  1. Quantization Effects on Tool-Failure Recovery Vary Across Prompts and Evaluation Designs

    Oct 6, 2026Yuhe HuTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Duke University

  2. Fewer Tokens, Better Action: GPT-6 Astra Robot Agents with 14% Higher Success Rate but 65% Fewer Tokens

    Oct 1, 2026Ruiyang Si, Jianxin Bi, Shunyu Yang +9Robotic ControlTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Peking University · National University of Singapore · NVIDIA +1

  3. Finding the Right Fit: Model-Harness Interactions across Agent Tasks

    Oct 1, 2026Yixuan Li, Yiyun Zhou, Yao Long Teng +6Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  4. TMCS: Tool-Grounded Multi-Agent Reasoning for Compositional Chemical Problem Solving

    Sep 28, 2026Shengqin Wang, Jie Jin, Yu Cheng +4Molecular OptimizationTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    East China Normal University, Shanghai Innovation Institute, University College London, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

  5. AgentHop: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Agentic Multi-Hop Scientific Question Answering

    Sep 28, 2026Chanhee Park, Jeongho Yoon, Sungbin Han +2Multi-Hop QATool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Korea University · Sookmyung Women’s University

  6. CompoWorld: Compositional Environment Scaling for General Agents

    Sep 27, 2026Xiao-Wen Yang, Weiyi Xu, Wen Da +9Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsTool-Using Agents

    AllSpark Team

  7. Era by Eon: Benchmarking Enterprise Agents on Hidden Knowledge

    Sep 24, 2026Benjamin Gruenbaum, Doron Porat, Assaf Natanzon +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Eon

  8. Control the Harness, Control the Cost: Routing and Governing AI Coding Agents in the Enterprise

    Sep 24, 2026Arian Abbasi, Alan Aqrawi, Ted KwartlerTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsCoding Agents

    Accenture Responsible AI · Accenture Americas Advanced AI Practice · Harvard Extension School, Harvard University

  9. SkillGym: Internalizing Human Skills into LLMs for Real-World Problem Solving

    Sep 23, 2026Zhilong Ge, Yuting Shao, Yutao Yang +6Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Skill Learning

    School of Computer Science and Technology, East China Normal University, Shanghai · Shanghai AI Laboratory

  10. Toolcompass: Guiding Tool Trialing, Not Suppressing It

    Sep 22, 2026Junlin Fang, Chong Zhang, Do Nguyen-Thanh +3Representation LearningTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University · Zhejiang University · Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology Sydney +1

  11. Qwen-Audio-3.1-Realtime: Towards Reliable Agentic Voice Interaction

    Sep 21, 2026Lujia Bao, Qian Chen, Luyao Cheng +15Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsSpeech Foundation Models

    Alibaba Token Foundry, Alibaba Group

  12. NemotronLabs VoiceChat: An Open Full-duplex Speech-to-Speech Model with Tool Calling Capabilities

    Sep 18, 2026Jagadeesh Balam, Travis Bartley, Edresson Casanova +52Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsSpeech Language Models

    Wookie

  13. Characterizing Web Search by Conversational LLM Agents: From Search Decisions and Strategies to Results and Responses

    Sep 16, 2026Mahsa Amani, Seungeon Lee, Abhisek Dash +9Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAgentic Search

    Max Planck Institute for Software Systems · Saarland University · Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’École Polytechnique +3

  14. Selection Is Retrieval, Abstention Is Not: On-Device Tool Routing over 70 Korean-English Actions

    Sep 16, 2026Janghoon LeeTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsOn-Device Language Model Inference

    Redrob

  15. Salesforce Koa: An Enterprise Language Model for Agentic Tool Use

    Sep 14, 2026Zixiang Chen, Sufeng Niu, Yingchi Liu +22Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLanguage Modeling

    Salesforce Agentforce & AI Research

  16. Fabrication After Tool Failure: Tool-Augmented Agents Assert Values Their Tools Did Not Return

    Sep 13, 2026Arham Sethi, Arsen Kenzhebayev, Saanvi Paturi +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsDeception in Language Models

    The Shishukunj International School · Haileybury Astana · UWCSEA East Campus +2

  17. ToolLoop: Closed-Loop Tool-Use Data Synthesis via Decomposed Generation and Dynamic Self-Feedback

    Sep 8, 2026Min Zeng, Yuzhou Liu, Zhenyu Cao +5Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsSynthetic Data Generation

    vivo AI Lab

  18. Beyond Fluent Generation: A CPU Reliability Benchmark for MCP-Style Tool Calling in Sub-2B Small Language Models for Edge Deployment

    Sep 7, 2026Abrar Shahriar Qurat-Ul-Ain MastoiTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsOn-Device Language Model Inference

    University of the West of England, Bristol,BS16 1QY United Kingdom

  19. Speculative Macro Commit for Faster Tool-Using Agents

    Sep 3, 2026Zeyu Liu, Souvik Kundu, Peter A. BeerelTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA · Intel Labs, San Diego, USA

  20. Harness Engineering in LLM Tool Use via Agent-Native Reusable Tool Primitives

    Sep 1, 2026Haibo Jin, Suijin Wang, Xucheng Yu +2Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Orchestration

    School of Information Sciences University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL 61820 · Independent Researcher Starc Institute

  21. MemoryWalker: Stop Training Agents on Contexts They Never Saw

    Sep 1, 2026Zinco J, Xunjie Zhu, Shen Huang +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsConsistency Distillation

    Token Foundry, Alibaba Group

  22. Skill Following: Evaluating Actual Skill Use in Retrieval-Enabled LLM Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Seonghyeon Cho, Chanjun ParkTool-Use EvaluationTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Soongsil University

  23. mimeo: Compiling Public Expert Corpora into Agent Skills and Testing What Transfers

    Aug 31, 2026Timothy KassisTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsPersonality Modeling in Language Models

    K-Dense, Inc.

  24. JIT-Agent: Scaling Harness Intelligence via Just-in-Time Harness Evolution

    Aug 26, 2026Guibin Zhang, Leo Lu, Fangzhou Xie +15Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAgent Harness Optimization

    JIT-Agent Team

  25. TRACE: A Self-Evolving Skill Bank for Consistent, Limit-Aware LLM Agents

    Aug 24, 2026Wenhao Wu, Menghao Zhang, Xin Wang +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Orchestration

    Xiaomi Inc. · Nanjing University · Tsinghua University

  26. Actions Speak Louder than Words: Measuring Cross-Lingual Policy Retention in Tool-Using Agents

    Aug 11, 2026Sourabrata Mukherjee, Kalika Bali, Sunayana SitaramMultilingual Language Model EvaluationTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Microsoft Research India

  27. Open Evaluation Agent: Efficient and Promptable Evaluation of Visual Generative Models

    Aug 10, 2026Shulin Tian, Ziqi Huang, Fan Zhang +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAI Agent Evaluation

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  28. UserToolBench: A User-Profile-Hidden Benchmark for Personalized Decision Making in Tool-Use LLMs

    Aug 10, 2026Xuexiong Yin, Zechuan Chen, Yongsen Zheng +5Tool-Use EvaluationTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Sun Yat-Sen University · Nanyang Technological University · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

  29. DOCSCHISEL: Adaptive Tool Documentation Optimization Framework for LLM Agents

    Aug 10, 2026You Lu, Kun Zhang, Bihuan Chen +1Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsTool-Using Agents

    College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University, China

  30. GALA: Graph-Augmented LLM Agents for Root Cause Analysis and Incident Response in Microservices

    Aug 10, 2026Yifang Tian, Yaming Liu, Zichun Chong +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    University of Toronto Toronto, Canada

  31. Persistent Semantic Entities in Tool-Augmented LLM Systems

    Aug 8, 2026Zhaohui WangAgent MemoryTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    USC Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

  32. ZhuLong: Execution-Grounded LLM Agent for EDA Scripting with Offline API Self-Exploration

    Aug 8, 2026Yang Liu, Shiwei Hou, Xiyuan Chen +13Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAI Coding Agents

    Changxin Memory Technologies, Inc. China

  33. NiyamAI - An Intent-Bound AI Agent with Cryptographically Verifiable Guardrails using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

    Aug 7, 2026Aditya Katkar, Om Karkele, Kartik Mandhane +2Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Guardrails

    Department of Computer Engineering, Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune, Maharashtra, India

  34. The Bitter Lesson of Tool Calling

    Aug 6, 2026Ishan Patel, Sahil Sen, Elias Lumer +1LLM EvaluationTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Commercial Technology and Innovation Office PricewaterhouseCoopers, U.S.A

  35. Getting the Parameters Right: A Difficulty-Graded Benchmark and Probe-Guided Training for LLM Tool Calls

    Aug 4, 2026Guoyao Yu, Xiaoqing Sun, Ziqi Huang +13Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

  36. PredAct-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Augmented Dialogue under Controlled Tool Noise

    Aug 3, 2026Abdulrahman AlRabah, Xiaocheng Yang, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +1AI Agent ReliabilityAI-Assisted Decision Making

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  37. Homebot: A Personal AI Agent for Conversational Home Assistance and Automation

    Aug 3, 2026Shengyuan Ye, Yixin Zhang, Han Liang +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsTool-Using Agents

    Power Dispatching and Controlling Center, Guangdong Power Grid Co., Ltd., Guangzhou, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China · Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China

  38. Hear, Invoke, and Understand: A Skill-Calling Multimodal Agent for Large Audio Language Models

    Aug 3, 2026Yuwen Wang, Tian-Hao Zhang, Minghao Cai +7Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAgent Evaluation

    University of Science and Technology Beijing, China · Li Auto Inc., Beijing, China

  39. SearchMaster: Grounded and Regulated Self-Play for Search Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Wentao Tan, Qiong Cao, Jiaqi Wang +1Multi-Hop QATool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    JD Future Academy, Beijing

  40. Data Turnstile: A Scalable Open Framework for Function-Calling Data Generation

    Jul 31, 2026Goutham Ramakrishnan, Megha SharmaTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsSmall Language Models

    Amazon AGI Bengaluru, India

  41. LayerRAG-Bench: A Cross-Layer Reliability Benchmark for Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Jul 29, 2026Musa ShamsAI Agent ReliabilityRetrieval-Augmented Generation

    Independent Researcher

  42. Tools Are Not Islands: Set-Level Tool Retrieval for LLM Agents via Query-Conditioned Hyperedge Prediction

    Jul 28, 2026Xinyi Hong, Pinjun Dong, Xinyang Yu +1Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Tool Use

    School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  43. HANDBOOK.md: A Benchmark for Long-Context Agentic Instruction Following

    Jul 28, 2026Liudas Panavas, Sebastian Minus, Bradley Monton +4Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksAI Agent Reliability

    Surge AI*

  44. E-Bench: Benchmarking Multi-Step Tool-Use Agents in Real-World Product Scenarios

    Jul 26, 2026Weihuang Zheng, Tianyuan Zou, Eileen Ye +5Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksTool-Use Evaluation

    Hunyuan Team, Tencent · Institute for AI Industry Research, Tsinghua University · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University

  45. AllocBench: Measuring Online Tool Allocation Capability in LLM Agents

    Jul 25, 2026Daniel Wang, Andrew XuTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAI Coding Agents

    Yale University

  46. AgentOmnia: Scaling Agentic Models for Full-Scenario Applications

    Jul 25, 2026Hao Jiang, Gangtao Xin, Yingdi Huang +35Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAgentic RL

    Huawei Cloud Post-Training Team

  47. Nanbeige4.2-3B: Unlocking Agentic Capabilities in a Compact Model

    Jul 24, 2026Nanbeige Lab, :, Chen Yang +23Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAgentic RL

    Nanbeige LLM Lab, Boss Zhipin

  48. SoundscapeAgent: Agentic Soundscape Construction for Controllable Synthesis and Scalable Audio-Language Supervision

    Jul 23, 2026Hao Zhang, Yiwen Zhao, Yixuan Zhang +2Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAudio Generation

    Wuhan University, Wuhan, China · Tencent Hunyuan, Bellevue, WA, USA

  49. TerraLogic: A Benchmark for Hierarchical Geospatial Reasoning in Earth Observation

    Jul 14, 2026Yuhang Yan, Linchao Mou, Bokang Yang +1Spatial Reasoning BenchmarksHierarchical Planning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) China · Technical University of Munich Germany

  50. ToFu: A White-Box, Token-Efficient Agent Harness for Researchers

    Jul 13, 2026Junhao Ruan, Yuan Ge, Bei Li +7Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsSoftware Engineering Agents

    Northeastern University, China · LongCat RSI, Meituan · NiuTrans Research

  51. BackendForge: Benchmarking Agentic End-to-End Code Generation with Backend Services

    Jul 13, 2026Yuzhe Guo, Mengzhou Wu, Yuan Cao +4Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLanguage Model Generation Evaluation

    1Key Lab of HCST (PKU), MOE; SCS, Peking University · 2Beijing Tongming Lake Information Technology Application Innovation Center (TLAIC) · 3Fudan University Institute of Systems for Advanced Computing +1

  52. RuBench: A Repository-Level Agentic Coding Benchmark with Natively Authored Russian Task Specifications

    Jul 7, 2026Evgeny ShilovComputer-Use Agent BenchmarksTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Independent Researcher

  53. ToolFailBench: Diagnosing Tool-Use Failures in LLM Agents

    Jul 6, 2026Harsh SoniAI Agent ReliabilityTool-Use Evaluation

    UC Berkeley

  54. Beyond Next-Token Prediction: An RLVR Proof of Concept for Tool-Use Agents on Atlassian Workflows

    Jul 1, 2026Karthikeya Aditya Vissa, Sankalp Mane, Ananya Mantravadi +2Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

    Centific

  55. AutoTrainess: Teaching Language Models to Improve Language Models Autonomously

    Jun 30, 2026Zhaojian Yu, Penghao Yin, Shuzheng Gao +3Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Tool Use

    1Tsinghua University · 2The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 3Simple Agent Lab

  56. SimpleSearch-VL: A Simple Recipe for Multimodal Agentic Deep Search

    Jun 30, 2026Ming Dai, Zhihong Lu, Jinjie Gu +5Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAgentic Search

    Southeast University · Ant Group

  57. LLM Agents Are Latent Context Managers: Eliciting Self-Managed Context via State Proprioception

    Jun 29, 2026Binyan Xu, Haitao Li, Kehuan ZhangTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Agent Memory

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · LIGHTSPEED · Tencent

  58. PolicyGuard: A Dialogue-Grounded Sub-Agent Verifier for Policy Adherence in LLM Agents

    Jun 28, 2026Seongjae Kang, Taehyung Yu, Sung Ju HwangTool-Augmented Language Model AgentsLLM Guardrails

    KAIST

  59. MIRROR: Novelty-Constrained Memory-Guided MCTS Red-Teaming for Agentic RAG

    Jun 25, 2026Inderjeet Singh, Andrés Murillo, Motoyoshi Sekiya +2Multimodal RAGTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Fujitsu Research of Europe, United Kingdom · Fujitsu Limited, Japan

  60. EnterpriseClawBench: Benchmarking Agents from Real Workplace Sessions

    Jun 22, 2026Jincheng Zhong, Weizhi Wang, Che Jiang +5Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    Horizon Research, Frontis.AI