Joint Optimization of Tool Creation and Use for Large Language Model Agents

arXiv:2608.24571 · cs.AI, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-25

Terminology

• Accuracy — 37× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verifier — 37× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 11× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 11× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 8× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 8× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Scaffolding — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verification — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Schema-grounded Multi-task Iterative Tool Honing — 4× in this paper
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Structural Constraints — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Agentic Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Task — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Tasks — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Frozen model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reward Hacking — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verifiable Rewards — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Zero-Shot Transfer — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

Sources

• Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• ReTool: Reinforcement Learning for Strategic Tool Use in LLMs
• LFM2 Technical Report
• DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
• Galactica: A Large Language Model for Science
• LaMDA: Language Models for Dialog Applications
• Reinforcement Learning for Self-Improving Agent with Skill Library
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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