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Yutai Hou

13 accepted papers

2026

AutoTool: Automatic Scaling of Tool-Use Capabilities in RL via Decoupled Entropy Constraints

ICLR 2026poster

Tool use represents a critical capability for AI agents, with recent advances focusing on leveraging reinforcement learning (RL) for test-time scaling to achieve better performance through more deliberate reasoning. However, there are some key challenges in current RL-based scaling approaches: (a)…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Tool Zero: Training Tool-Augmented LLMs via Pure RL from Scratch

EMNLP 2025

Training tool-augmented LLMs has emerged as a promising approach to enhancing language models’ capabilities for complex tasks. The current supervised fine-tuning paradigm relies on constructing extensive domain-specific datasets to train models. However, this approach often struggles to generalize e

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

ToolACE: Winning the Points of LLM Function Calling

ICLR 2025poster

Function calling significantly extends the application boundary of large language models (LLMs), where high-quality and diverse training data is critical for unlocking this capability. However, collecting and annotating real function-calling data is challenging, while synthetic data from existing pi…

Cited by 23SourcePDFScholar
2025

iTool: Reinforced Fine-Tuning with Dynamic Deficiency Calibration for Advanced Tool Use

EMNLP 2025

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools is a promising approach to enhance their capabilities, especially for complex tasks. Synthesizing tool-use data through real-world simulations is an effective way to achieve this. However, our investigation reveals that training gains signi

2024

Beyond Static Evaluation: A Dynamic Approach to Assessing AI Assistants’ API Invocation Capabilities

COLING 2024main

With the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs), AI assistants’ ability to utilize tools, especially through API calls, has advanced notably. This progress has necessitated more accurate evaluation methods. Many existing studies adopt static evaluation, where they assess AI assistants’ API call based…

2024

Concise and Precise Context Compression for Tool-Using Language Models

ACL 2024findings

Through reading the documentation in the context, tool-using language models can dynamically extend their capability using external tools. The cost is that we have to input lengthy documentation every time the model needs to use the tool, occupying the input window as well as slowing down the decodi…

2024

Planning, Creation, Usage: Benchmarking LLMs for Comprehensive Tool Utilization in Real-World Complex Scenarios

ACL 2024findings

The recent trend of using Large Language Models (LLMs) as tool agents in real-world applications underscores the necessity for comprehensive evaluations of their capabilities, particularly in complex scenarios involving planning, creating, and using tools. However, existing benchmarks typically focu…

2024

Semantic-Guided Generative Image Augmentation Method with Diffusion Models for Image Classification

AAAI 2024technical

Existing image augmentation methods consist of two categories: perturbation-based methods and generative methods. Perturbation-based methods apply pre-defined perturbations to augment an original image, but only locally vary the image, thus lacking image diversity. In contrast, generative methods br…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2022

Inverse is Better! Fast and Accurate Prompt for Few-shot Slot Tagging

ACL 2022findings

Prompting methods recently achieve impressive success in few-shot learning. These methods modify input samples with prompt sentence pieces, and decode label tokens to map samples to corresponding labels. However, such a paradigm is very inefficient for the task of slot tagging. Since slot tagging sa…

2022

MetaPrompting: Learning to Learn Better Prompts

COLING 2022main

Prompting method is regarded as one of the crucial progress for few-shot nature language processing. Recent research on prompting moves from discrete tokens based “hard prompts” to continuous “soft prompts”, which employ learnable vectors as pseudo prompt tokens and achieve better performance. Thoug…

2021

C2C-GenDA: Cluster-to-Cluster Generation for Data Augmentation of Slot Filling

AAAI 2021technical

Slot filling, a fundamental module of spoken language understanding, often suffers from insufficient quantity and diversity of training data. To remedy this, we propose a novel Cluster-to-Cluster generation framework for Data Augmentation (DA), named C2C-GenDA. It enlarges the training set by recons…

2021

Few-shot Learning for Multi-label Intent Detection

AAAI 2021technical

In this paper, we study the few-shot multi-label classification for user intent detection. For multi-label intent detection, state-of-the-art work estimates label-instance relevance scores and uses a threshold to select multiple associated intent labels. To determine appropriate thresholds with only…