Meta-Tool: Unleash Open-World Function Calling Capabilities of General-Purpose Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models struggle with addressing diverse user inquiries in open-world tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a plug-and-play tool retrieval system for LLMs to access external tool library and use retrieved tools to solve user's problem. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model improves on a finetuned version of LLaMA-3.1 and 2,800 dialogues and 7,361 tools spanning ten distinct test categories. |
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