Mid-training is increasingly recognized as a critical stage for shaping the capabilities of large language models. Recent work has shown that targeted mid-training can strengthen reasoning-intensive abilities such as math and science, and can also improve agentic capabilities in software-engineering settings. In this work, we study the parallel but less explored agentic capability: general tool use. We present MidTool, an open corpus construction pipeline for agentic tool-use mid-training that combines large-scale web, PDF, and code data with synthesized supervision from real-world tool APIs, MCP skills, and document-grounded workflows. MidTool is designed to teach models how to recognize tool affordances, ground arguments from context, compose tool call workflow, and recover from incomplete information. We mid-train Qwen3-4B-Base and Qwen3-8B-Base on MidTool-Mix, and then apply follow-up post-training with both supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. Compared with baselines, MidTool-Mix consistently improves downstream performance under both SFT and RL on BFCL, tau2-Bench, and MCP Universe. These results suggest that general tool use, like other important LLM capabilities, benefits from dedicated mid-training rather than being left entirely to post-training.
Fengqing Jiang, Yi-Te Wang, Bo-Yi Liu et al.· 0 citations
Multi-agent systems have shown strong performance in domains with reliable verifiers such as coding, where multi-parallel candidate generation selected by a verifier is effective. However, such pipelines would not generalize to open-ended, long-horizon research tasks without a verifier. While majority voting or self-consistency is often used to reach consensus as a proxy verifier, parallel agents repeatedly explore the same evidence, while access to peers'partial findings cause search to converge on an early candidate before alternatives are tested. We present ArcticSwarm, a multi-agent research architecture that separates evidence gathering from evidence integration. Subagents publish findings to a shared bulletin board, while gated isolation lets selected search tasks maintain their own prior, preventing early consensus. Structured review at three commitment boundaries enforce only confident candidates to be propagated. As a result, ArcticSwarm reaches 82.6% on the full BrowseComp-Plus set with the open-weight Qwen 3.5-27B model, compared with 78.8% without gated isolation and 74.5% additionally with structured review disabled, outperforming aligned baseline MiroFlow runs (70.6%). Extending to live-web BrowseComp, ArcticSwarm reaches 73.6% with GPT-5, which is well above the reported provider system (54.9%) and MiroFlow (63.4%). Overall, the results show that restricting peer reads during evidence gathering and strengthening commitment boundaries before a hypothesis is shared can broaden search and improve long-horizon multi-agent deep research.
Soyoung Yoon, Bo-Yi Liu, Yi-Te Wang et al.· 0 citations
This work introduces Spider 2.0-AIFunc, a benchmark of 465 verified instances across 125 real-world databases covering six types of AI functions on the Snowflake platform, and finds that the strongest proprietary models reach 67-70% execution accuracy while the best open-source model achieves 58.1%, a gap driven primarily by errors in predicate specification, schema grounding, and AI function parameterization.
Tianyang Liu, Canwen Xu, Fangyu Lei et al.· arXiv.org· 0 citations
ReASearch is presented, a unified framework for reasoning-driven optimization in which the agent autonomously decides what to evaluate, how to diagnose failures, which edits to make, and when to verify or restart.
Jun-Bo Li, Bo-Yi Liu, Canwen Xu et al.· 0 citations
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