Enhancing Function-Calling Capabilities in LLMs: Strategies for Prompt Formats, Data Integration, and Multilingual Translation (2025.naacl-industry)
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| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced autonomous agents, particularly in zero-shot tool usage, also known as function calling. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate function descriptions into prompt formats and introduce a new Decision Token for conditional prompts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed decision token improves function-calling accuracy and relevance detection and a translation pipeline overcomes multilingual limitations. |
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