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  1. SchemaFill: Efficient LLM Tool Calling via Slot-Parallel Speculative Decoding

    Oct 5, 2026Zhi-Kai Chen, Song-Yan Li, De-Chuan Zhan +1Speculative DecodingLLM Inference Acceleration

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China · National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China · Nanjing University, China

  2. Turnslide: Scalable Multi-Turn Data Synthesis by Walking a Finite-State Machine

    Oct 5, 2026Aaron Fainman, Gabriela Kadlecová, Maciej Gryka +7LLM Fine-TuningSynthetic Data Generation

    Imperial College London · distil labs · Agon +1

  3. Rethinking Multi-Image Re-Representation in Multi-Image Understanding

    Sep 30, 2026Gengyuan Zhang, Xiao Han, Xinyu Xie +2Visual Representation LearningMultimodal CoT Reasoning

    LMU Munich · MCML

  4. VISTA: Internalizing Collective Visual Experience via On-Policy Distillation for Active Multimodal Agents

    Sep 29, 2026Zheng Jiang, Houde Qian, Yiming Chen +5On-Policy DistillationMultimodal Agents

    Tsinghua University

  5. Almost Human, Except When It Matters: VoxParity and the Decisions a Voice Should Change

    Sep 28, 2026Bhavik ManglaSpoken Dialogue SystemsAudio Reasoning

    Independent Research

  6. ParaAgent: Reinforcing Parallel Acting in Open-World Tool Environments

    Sep 27, 2026Shengbin Yue, Hongru Wang, Siyuan Wang +3LLM Agent TrainingTool Use

    Fudan University · University of Edinburgh · Chinese University of Hong Kong +3

  7. A Wrong Turn Does Not Ruin the Journey: Deviation-Guided Skill Self-Evolution for LLM Agents

    Sep 24, 2026Yichun Feng, Jiawei Wang, Haozhe SunLLM Agent Self-ImprovementLLM Agent Skill Learning

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Science and Technology of China · Meituan

  8. 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

  9. MTVA-Bench: Evaluating the Language Model Inside Cascaded Voice Agents

    Sep 17, 2026Pritish Mishra, Ishaan Kumar, Akshat Mandoli +1Voice Agent EvaluationMultilingual Language Model Evaluation

    Smallest AI

  10. MATCH: Model-Aware Tool Learning with Curriculum Scheduling and Hierarchically Gated Rewards

    Sep 17, 2026Shihao Liu, Hao Yin, Lijun Liu +3Reward ModelingCurriculum RL

    School of Cyber Security, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences · Honor Device Co., Ltd · University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

  11. Ask the Tool, Don't Guess: Agent Tool Calls Hold Their Progress, and the Serving System Should Read It

    Sep 16, 2026Yipeng Liu, Yingqiang Zhang, Feifei Li +1LLM Inference EfficiencyKV Caching

    Tsinghua University, China · Alibaba Cloud Computing, China · Zhejiang University, China

  12. 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

  13. From Production Traffic to Post-Training: Building a Self-Hosted LLM That Covers the Corporate Request Mix

    Sep 1, 2026Olga Tsymboi, Dmitrii Stoianov, Ramil Latypov +11LLM ServingInstruction Following

    T-Tech

  14. CoBRA: Learning Tool-Use Boundaries via Counterfactual Margins

    Sep 1, 2026Wenhao Zou, Xianglong Liu, Wendong Bi +3Tool UseRL for Tool Use

    WeChat, Tencent Inc, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

  15. One Policy Is Enough: Single-Agent Reinforcement Learning Outperforms Tree Search for Chemistry Tool Learning

    Aug 31, 2026Armin Dariani, Sifan Wu, Bang Liu +1LLM Tool UseTool Use

    1DIRO, Université de Montréal · 2Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute · 3Innovation Campus Delaware, Air Liquide

  16. Retry, Switch, or Abstain? Learning Strategy-Aware Tool-Use Policies via Controlled Error Injection

    Aug 12, 2026Chaoran Chen, Vy Nguyen, Ziji Zhang +7Curriculum RLAI Agent Benchmarks

    Amazon

  17. SPIEval: Evaluating Large Language Models as Mobile Assistants over Scattered Personal Information

    Aug 11, 2026Junjie Ye, Zhuohui Sheng, Shaofan Liu +12LLM EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    1Fudan University · 2Tencent Hunyuan Team

  18. VTO: Visual Tool Orchestration for Video Anomaly Detection

    Aug 8, 2026Rui Wang, Yeteng Wu, Xianling Zhang +1Reinforcement LearningVideo Anomaly Detection

    State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China

  19. Which Decisions Low-Bit Quantization Breaks, and How to Predict Them

    Aug 6, 2026Zekun Wu, Swati Dhiman, Adriano KoshiyamaPost-Training QuantizationLow-Bit Quantization

    Holistic AI · UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence, University College London

  20. A Master-Slave Robot Manipulator for Needle-Based Teleoperation in MRI Chamber

    Aug 6, 2026Omar Curiel, Jing-Yuan Huang, Po-Chih Chen +6Robot TeleoperationRobotics

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 900095 USA · Horizon Surgical Systems Inc.,Malibu, CA 90265 · Department of Radiological Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

  21. ToolLIFT: Lifting Tool-Specific Trajectories into Function-Level Graphs for Generalizable Tool Planning

    Aug 4, 2026Xiuhui You, Jiayi Luo, Zichao Shen +2Tool-Use PlanningTool Use

    School of Computer Science and Engineering · Beihang University

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

    Aug 4, 2026Can Wang, Haoran Chen, Li Yu +4Tool-Using AgentsLLM Tool Use

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

  23. Screenshots or Tools? Eliciting Tool Use and Managing Multimodal Context in Hybrid GUI-MCP Computer-Use Agents

    Aug 4, 2026Siqi Fan, Minghao Li, Xiaoqian Ma +6Computer-Use AgentsRL for LLM Agents

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · AI Platform, Xiaohongshu Inc. · Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China +1

  24. 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

  25. ScrambleToolBench: Agents Search Exhaustively Even When Their Own Map Points to the Next Step

    Aug 3, 2026Vernon Toh, Navonil Majumder, Zhengyuan Liu +2LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    DeCLaRe Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

  26. Verified Tool Calls Improve LLM Agent Reliability Under Non-Atomic Failures

    Jul 31, 2026Isham Kalappurackal Mansoor, Abhishek Phadke, Pratip RanaAI Agent ReliabilityLLM Tool Use

    Department of Computer Science Old Dominion University Norfolk, VA 23529 · School of Engineering and Computing Christopher Newport University Newport News, VA 23606

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Diagnosing and Calibrating Tool-Call Boundary Drift in Multi-Teacher On-Policy Distillation

    Jul 8, 2026Jiabin Shen, Guang Chen, Chengjun MaoLLM Tool UseMulti-Teacher Knowledge Distillation

  30. FuncBridge: Towards Functional Tool-Use Generalization via Keypoint Trajectory Reasoning

    Jul 7, 2026Chuhao Zhou, Liquan Wang, Shuxin Cao +5Robot Skill LearningGeneralization in Robotic Manipulation

    MARS Lab, Nanyang Technological University · Georgia Institute of Technology