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23 Jul

Competitive and Complementary Tools

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4 May

Are Tools All We Need? Unveiling the Tool-Use Tax in LLM Agents

arXiv:2605.00136v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-augmented reasoning has become a popular direction for LLM-based agents, and it is widely assumed to improve reasoning and

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15 Jun

When the Tool Decides: LLM Agents Defer Blindly to Graph Neural Network Tools, and Stronger Backbones Defer More

arXiv:2606.14476v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A growing line of work equips large language model (LLM) agents with graph neural networks (GNNs) as callable tools, assuming the

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1 Sept

Learning to Use Tools: Reinforcement Learning for Tool-Integrated Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2608.28447v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current large language models (LLMs) increasingly benefit from external tool integration, especially for tasks requiring reliable

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25 Apr

Tool Attention Is All You Need: Dynamic Tool Gating and Lazy Schema Loading for Eliminating the MCP/Tools Tax in Scalable Agentic Workflows

arXiv:2604.21816v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become a common interface for connecting large language model (LLM) agents to external tools,

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