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  1. ActionGuard: Tool Call Authorization under Poisoned Skills

    Sep 30, 2026Jihun Han, Yejin Jang, Byung Il Kwak +1Tool InvocationAuthorization

    Korea University Republic of Korea

  2. One Readout, Many Repairs: Diffusion-Guided Hierarchical Search for Tool-Agent Repair

    Sep 28, 2026Xiang Xia, Cheng Yan, Wuyang Zhang +4RepairTool Invocation

    University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  3. Measuring the Serving Stack Instead of the Model: Hidden Confounds in Local Tool-Use Evaluation

    Sep 22, 2026Lijuan Tang, Yuemeng ZhengTool InvocationEvaluation Protocols

    Northeastern University, Seattle

  4. Canonical Procedural Actions: An Auditable Annotation Protocol for Tool-Use Agent Traces

    Sep 21, 2026Songqi Li, Dongqing Li, Zheqiao ChengTracesTool Invocation

    Cambridge Language Sciences, Raised Faculty Building, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA, United Kingdom · Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 24–29 St Giles’, Oxford OX1 3LB, United Kingdom · Zhejiang University, China

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

    Sep 18, 2026Jagadeesh Balam, Travis Bartley, Edresson Casanova +52Full-Duplex Speech ModelsTool Invocation

    Wookie

  6. Closed-World Resolution Against Tool Hallucination in LLM Agents

    Sep 16, 2026Laxmipriya Ganesh IyerLarge Language Model HallucinationTool Invocation

    Independent Researcher

  7. When Tool Calls Succeed but Workflows Fail: Anomalies at the Agent-Tool Boundary

    Sep 14, 2026Artem Trofimov, Boris NovikovTool InvocationAgentic Workflow Design

    AVIV Group · Independent Researcher

  8. FlowScout: From Execution Feedback to Reliable Tool-Using Agent Workflows

    Aug 10, 2026Shuo Hao, You Lu, Bihuan Chen +1Agentic WorkflowsAgentic Workflow Design

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

  9. Towards Robust Tool Use in Agents via Experience-Driven Adaptive Guidance

    Aug 4, 2026Can Wang, Haoran Chen, Li Yu +4Controlling Tool UseTool Invocation

    1Shandong Key Laboratory of Digital Service Computing Technology and Systems · 2Alibaba Token Hub · Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  10. IACM-RL: Intent-Aware Context Management and Reinforcement Learning for Complex Tool Invocation under Dynamic Intent Fluctuations

    Aug 3, 2026Dingwei Zhu, Jiahan Li, Chengjun Pan +22Tool InvocationIcr-Rl

    1Fudan University · 3Peking University · 2Honor Device Co., Ltd.

  11. OoO-Spec: Out-of-Order Semantic Speculation for Fast Tool Calling

    Aug 1, 2026Zhiheng Zhang, Mujie Xu, Feiyu Sun +1Self-SpeculativeTool Invocation

    The University of Tokyo · Peking University · Nanjing University

  12. Beacon: Knowing When and How to Perform Agentic Visual Reasoning

    Jul 30, 2026Qixun Wang, Yang Shi, Letian Cheng +11Visual ReasoningAgentic Reasoning

    Peking University · Kling Team · HKUST(GZ) +3

  13. MM-ToolSandBox: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Visual Tool-Calling Agents

    Jul 13, 2026Kaixin Ma, Di Feng, Alexander Metz +3Multimodal AgentsTool Invocation

    Apple

  14. Controlling Tool Use with Heading-Specific Activation Steering

    Jul 7, 2026Yuqi Chen, Vincent Siu, Yang Liu +2Controlling Tool UseTool Invocation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Santa Cruz · Department of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

  15. Why Multi-Step Tool-Use Reinforcement Learning Collapses and How Supervisory Signals Fix It

    Jun 24, 2026Yupu Hao, Zhuoran Jin, Huanxuan Liao +2Large Language Model Reinforcement LearningAgentic Reinforcement Learning

    1The Key Laboratory of Cognition and Decision Intelligence for Complex Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  16. Constraint Tax in Open-Weight LLMs: An Empirical Study of Tool Calling Suppression Under Structured Output Constraints

    Jun 24, 2026Fangzheng Li, Aimin Zhang, Chen LvTool InvocationCall

    1Focus AI Center, Focus Technology Co., Ltd. · 2Nanjing University of Science and Technology

  17. LemonHarness Technical Report

    Jun 23, 2026Kailong Ren, Fubo Sun, Jiachen Liu +18Long-Horizon AgentsTool Invocation

  18. Intent-Governed Tool Authorization for AI Agents

    Jun 22, 2026Genliang Zhu, Chu WangAuthorizationAccess Control

    Accentrust · Georgia Institute of Technology · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  19. Beyond Static Endpoints: Tool Programs as an Interface for Flexible Agentic Web Services

    Jun 18, 2026Mugeng Liu, Shuoqi Li, Yixuan Zhang +1Tool InvocationAgentic Workflows

    School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Software & Microelectronics, Peking University, Beijing, China · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University, Beijing, China

  20. Agentic Electronic Design Automation: A Handoff Perspective

    Jun 18, 2026Jiawei Liu, Peiyi Han, Yuntao Lu +3Electronic Design AutomationHandoff

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Primarius Technologies

  21. HyperTool: Beyond Step-Wise Tool Calls for Tool-Augmented Agents

    Jun 11, 2026Yaxin Du, Yifan Zhou, Yujie Ge +7Tool InvocationAgentic Workflow Design

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · IQuest Research · Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

  22. Evoflux: Inference-Time Evolution of Executable Tool Workflows for Compact Agents

    Jun 10, 2026Kushal Raj Bhandari, Ling Yue, Ching-Yun Ko +4Tool InvocationAgentic Workflow Design

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180 USA · IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA

  23. NTILC: Neural Tool Invocation via Learned Compression

    Jun 4, 2026Andrew Krikorian, Yayuan Li, Jason J. CorsoTool InvocationLarge Language Model Tool Use

    Department of Robotics University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48104 · Department of ECE University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48104

  24. ToolGate: Token-Efficient Pre-Call Control for Tool-Augmented Vision-Language Agents

    Jun 2, 2026Anjie Liu, Yan Song, Zhixun Chen +3Tool InvocationGating

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · University College London · AI Lab, The Yangtze River Delta

  25. Ghost Tool Calls: Issue-Time Privacy for Speculative Agent Tools

    Jun 1, 2026Bardia Mohammadi, Lars Klein, Akhil Arora +1Tool InvocationCall

    Max Planck Institute for Software Systems · EPFL · Aarhus University

  26. MetaForge: A Self-Evolving Multimodal Agent that Retrieves, Adapts, and Forges Tools On Demand

    Jun 1, 2026Shouang Wei, Houcheng Min, Xinpeng Dong +8Multimodal AgentsTool Invocation

    East China Normal University · Zhejiang University · Tsinghua University +2

  27. On Effectiveness and Efficiency of Agentic Tool-calling and RL Training

    May 28, 2026Tong Liu, Cheng Qian, Matej Cief +4Agentic Reinforcement LearningTool Invocation

    1LMU Munich & Munich Center for Machine Learning · 2UIUC · 3Amazon +1

  28. DeepTool: Scaling Interleaved Deliberation in Tool-Integrated Reasoning via Process-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

    May 28, 2026Yang He, Xiao Ding, Bibo Cai +5Tool InvocationDeliberation

    Research Center for Social Computing and Interactive Robotics, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

  29. ParaTool: Shifting Tool Representations from Context to Parameters

    May 28, 2026Zekai Yu, Qi Meng, Qizhi Chu +3Tool InvocationLarge Language Model Tool Use

    1Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

  30. MemMorph: Tool Hijacking in LLM Agents via Memory Poisoning

    May 24, 2026Xuanye Zhang, Yongsen Zheng, Zhuqin Xu +5Large Language Model AgentsAttacker Large Language Model

    Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  31. HarnessAPI: A Skill-First Framework for Unified Streaming APIs and MCP Tools

    May 21, 2026Edwin JoseApplication Programming InterfacesModel Context Protocol

    Department of Computer Science Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA

  32. Are Tools Always Beneficial? Learning to Invoke Tools Adaptively for Dual-Mode Multimodal LLM Reasoning

    May 19, 2026Qinghe Ma, Zhen Zhao, Yiming Wu +3Multimodal Large Language ModelsLLM Reasoning Strategies

    The State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory +2

  33. Implicit Hierarchical GRPO: Decoupling Tool Invocation from Execution for Tool-Integrated Mathematical Reasoning

    May 18, 2026Li Wang, Xiaohan Wang, Xiaodong Lu +5LLM Reasoning StrategiesMathematical Reasoning

    Meituan · Tsinghua University

  34. Case-Based Calibration of Adaptive Reasoning and Execution for LLM Tool Use

    May 14, 2026Renning Pang, Tian Lan, Leyuan Liu +3Tool InvocationLLM Reasoning Strategies

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China

  35. Efficient Serving for Dynamic Agent Workflows with Prediction-based KV-Cache Management

    May 7, 2026Haoyu Zheng, Fangcheng Fu, Jia Wu +6Kv-Cache ManagementWorkload

    Wuhan University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Macquarie University +2

  36. Beyond State Machines: Executing Network Procedures with Agentic Tool-Calling Sequences

    May 4, 2026Purna Sai Garigipati, Onur Ayan, Kishor Chandra Joshi +1Tool InvocationArtificial Intelligence Agents

    Heisenberg Research Center, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH, 80992 Munich, Germany · Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

  37. GeoMind: An Agentic Workflow for Lithology Classification with Reasoned Tool Invocation

    Apr 23, 2026Yitong Zhou, Mingyue Cheng, Jiahao Wang +2Lithology ClassificationAgentic Workflows

    State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  38. UniToolCall: Unifying Tool-Use Representation, Data, and Evaluation for LLM Agents

    Apr 13, 2026Yijuan Liang, Xinghao Chen, Yifan Ge +5Tool InvocationLarge Language Model Agents

    University of Science and Technology of China · Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Industrial Intelligence and Digital Twin, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo · Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  39. Verifiable Manifest Signing and Transparency Enforcement for Secure MCP-Based LLM Pipelines

    Jan 30, 2026Saeid Jamshidi, Kawser Wazed Nafi, Arghavan Moradi Dakhel +2Model Context ProtocolLarge Language Model Pipelines

    SWAT Laboratory, Polytechnique Montr´eal, Montr´eal, Canada · SæT Laboratory, Polytechnique Montr´eal, Montr´eal, Canada

  40. Red-Teaming Coding Agents from a Tool-Invocation Perspective: An Empirical Security Assessment

    Sep 6, 2025Yuchong Xie, Mingyu Luo, Zesen Liu +7Red-TeamingCoding Agents

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China · Fudan University, China