Agent-ValueBench is the first dedicated benchmark for agent values, showing they diverge from LLM values, form a homogeneous 'Value Tide' across models, and bend under harnesses and skill steering.
hub Canonical reference
ToolAlpaca: Generalized Tool Learning for Language Models with 3000 Simulated Cases
Canonical reference. 80% of citing Pith papers cite this work as background.
32
Pith papers citing it
Background
80% of classified citations
abstract
Enabling large language models to utilize real-world tools effectively is crucial for achieving embodied intelligence. Existing approaches to tool learning have either primarily relied on extremely large language models, such as GPT-4, to attain generalized tool-use abilities in a zero-shot manner, or utilized supervised learning to train limited scopes of tools on compact models. However, it remains uncertain whether smaller language models can achieve generalized tool-use abilities without tool-specific training. To address this question, this paper introduces ToolAlpaca, a novel framework designed to automatically generate a diverse tool-use corpus and learn generalized tool-use abilities on compact language models with minimal human intervention. Specifically, ToolAlpaca first automatically creates a highly diversified tool-use corpus by building a multi-agent simulation environment. The corpus contains 3938 tool-use instances from more than 400 real-world tool APIs spanning 50 distinct categories. Subsequently, the constructed corpus is employed to fine-tune compact language models, resulting in two models, namely ToolAlpaca-7B and ToolAlpaca-13B, respectively. Finally, we evaluate the ability of these models to utilize previously unseen tools without specific training. Experimental results demonstrate that ToolAlpaca achieves effective generalized tool-use capabilities comparable to those of extremely large language models like GPT-3.5, demonstrating that learning generalized tool-use ability is feasible for compact language models.
hub tools
citation-role summary
background 4
dataset 1
citation-polarity summary
representative citing papers
LLM agents achieve greater flexibility during execution by classifying actions via a reversibility taxonomy and using an Earliest-Conflict Rollback algorithm that matches full-restart quality while wasting far less completed work.
AgentDojo introduces an extensible evaluation framework populated with realistic agent tasks and security test cases to measure prompt injection robustness in tool-using LLM agents.
API-Bank is a new benchmark and training dataset for tool-augmented LLMs that shows fine-tuned models can approach GPT-3.5 tool-use effectiveness.
Self-distillation token rewards measure input-response-feedback pointwise mutual information, and CREDIT extracts the input-specific component with contrastive baselines to improve LLM reasoning performance.
Tool cloning is pervasive in agentic AI ecosystems, with 60% of high-Jaccard and 85% of high-ssdeep MCP repository pairs manually verified as true clones.
AOPD modifies on-policy distillation by using localized divergence minimization for non-positive advantages instead of negative reinforcement, yielding average gains of 4.09/8.34 over standard OPD on math reasoning benchmarks under strong/weak initialization.
COVERT generates verifiable synthetic tool-use environments for RL by validated trajectory synthesis and oracle-preserving augmentations, improving tool-use accuracy on BFCL v3 and ACEBench while remaining complementary to SFT.
ToolPRM provides fine-grained intra-call process supervision via a new dataset and reward model, outperforming outcome and coarse-grained alternatives on function-calling benchmarks.
SynAE is a multi-metric framework that evaluates how well synthetic benchmarks replicate real data characteristics for multi-turn tool-calling agent testing.
Maestro uses outcome-based RL to train a lightweight policy that orchestrates ensembles of frozen expert models and skills, reporting 70.1% average accuracy across ten multimodal benchmarks and outperforming GPT-5 and Gemini-2.5-Pro while generalizing to unseen components.
OEP poisons self-evolving LLM agents by constructing clean edge-case experiences that appear locally valid yet cause harmful over-generalization during reflection, achieving over 50% attack success rate on GPT-4o agents across three domains.
FireFly inverts task synthesis by exploring real MCP servers first via pairwise tool graphs and sub-DAG sampling, then generates 5,144 verified tasks backward from outcomes to train a 4B model that matches Claude Sonnet 4.6 on tool-calling benchmarks.
Empirical analysis across 15 LLMs and 1,141 skills identifies a logarithmic routing decay law and a multiplicative execution law coupled by a single fitted slope parameter b that enables targeted library optimizations improving routing accuracy and downstream task pass rates.
UniSD unifies self-distillation components for autoregressive LLMs and its full integrated version improves base models by 5.4 points and baselines by 2.8 points across six benchmarks.
TRUSTEE uses an 8B LM to simulate complete dynamic environments for RL-based tool learning and outperforms baselines that require extra external resources.
Fine-tuning an 8B LLM with synthetic data enables accurate natural language querying of structured datasets like accessibility services in Spain, generalizing to new locations.
ATBench is a new trajectory-level benchmark with 1,000 diverse and realistic scenarios for assessing safety in LLM agents.
A constrained-synthesis RL method with graduated rewards for atomic validity and orchestration consistency improves LLM turn accuracy on multi-step tool benchmarks and transfers to new API sets.
WildToolBench shows no LLM exceeds 15 percent accuracy on tool-use tasks that reflect real user behaviors like compositional orchestration, implicit intents across turns, and mixed instructions.
AgentXRay formulates workflow reconstruction as combinatorial optimization and uses Monte Carlo Tree Search with Red-Black Pruning to approximate black-box agent behaviors via output-based proxy metrics.
The paper maps agent memory research via three forms (token-level, parametric, latent), three functions (factual, experiential, working), and dynamics of formation/evolution/retrieval, plus benchmarks and future directions.
Introduces NoisyToolBench benchmark and Ask-when-Needed framework to improve LLM tool-use performance when user instructions are unclear or incomplete.
CoALA is a modular cognitive architecture for language agents that organizes memory components, action spaces for internal and external interaction, and a generalized decision-making loop to support more systematic development of capable agents.
citing papers explorer
-
Bridging Language Models and Financial Analysis
A survey synthesizing recent LLM research and assessing its applicability to financial data analysis.