Beyond Semantic Similarity: Reducing Unnecessary API Calls via Behavior-Aligned Retriever

arXiv:2508.14323 · cs.CL · Submitted 2025-08-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2025-08-20

Updated: 2026-08-30

Code: https://github.com/cyxhello/BAR

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Consistency — 15× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 14× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 8× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Loss Function — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• In-Context Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• AdamW Optimizer — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Behavior Aligned Retrieval — 1× in this paper
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Supervised Contrastive Loss — 1× in this paper
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• MetaTool Benchmark for Large Language Models: Deciding Whether to Use Tools and Which to Use
• Mistral 7B
• Safety-Tuned LLaMAs: Lessons From Improving the Safety of Large Language Models that Follow Instructions
• ToolAlpaca: Generalized Tool Learning for Language Models with 3000 Simulated Cases
• Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
• Augmented Language Models: a Survey
• Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding
• Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Natural Language Processing: A Survey
• ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs
• Qwen2.5 Technical Report
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI-Generated Content: A Survey

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