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Toolformer

An LLM from Meta trained to autonomously decide when and how to call external APIs such as a calculator, translator, or search engine.

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In practice

It is one of the first works to show that an LLM can learn tool use in a self-supervised way, without human examples. Today the idea lives on in the native function calling of modern models.

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Tool use Function calling Agent

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  1. Toolformer: the LLM that learns to use tools on its own
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