ASA: Backbone-Training-Free Representation Engineering for Tool-Calling Agents
cs.SE, cs.AI
Submitted: 2026-02-04
Updated: 2026-08-28
Terminology
Sources
- Phi-4-Mini Technical Report: Compact yet Powerful Multimodal Language Models via Mixture-of-LoRAs
- Therefore I am. I Think
- ReTool: Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Tool Use in LLMs
- Hammer: Robust Function-Calling for On-Device Language Models via Function Masking
- LLM Agents Already Know When to Call Tools -- Even Without Reasoning
- ToolAlpaca: Generalized Tool Learning for Language Models with 3000 Simulated Cases
- Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering
- PEFT A2Z: Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Survey for Large Language and Vision Models
- Controlling Large Language Model Agents with Entropic Activation Steering
- Understanding Reasoning in Thinking Language Models via Steering Vectors
- Tool Calling is Linearly Readable and Steerable in Language Models
- Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency
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