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The Menu Is an Execution Prior: State-Path Tool Menus for Online Agents

A paper posted to arXiv titled "The Menu Is an Execution Prior: State-Path Tool Menus for Online Agents" reports that language models can execute multi-step tasks with a tool menu limited to 32 tools, down from 128, achieving an online success rate of 0.898 versus 0.737 previously, without changes to the underlying agent. The work is credited to the paper's authors on arXiv and claims the approach enables more efficient and scalable deployment of LLMs in production environments.

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The Menu Is an Execution Prior: State-Path Tool Menus for Online Agents
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The Menu Is an Execution Prior: State-Path Tool Menus for Online Agents

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Language models can now successfully execute multi-step tasks with a tool menu limited to 32 tools, up from 128, achieving a higher online success rate of 0.898 compared to 0.737 previously, without requiring changes to the underlying agent, enabling more efficient and scalable deployment of LLMs in production environments.

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