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Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) has emerged as a promising direction by extending Large Language Models' (LLMs) capabilities with external tools during reasoning. Existing TIR methods typically rely on external tool documentation during…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qiancheng Xu , Yongqi Li , Fan Liu , Hongru Wang , Min Yang , Wenjie Li

Large reasoning models (LRMs) have achieved strong performance enhancement through scaling test time computation, but due to the inherent limitations of the underlying language models, they still have shortcomings in tasks that require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Ruotao Xu , Yixin Ji , Yu Luo , Jinpeng Li , Dong Li , Peifeng Li , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) enables large language models (LLMs) to improve their internal reasoning ability by integrating external tools. However, models employing TIR often display suboptimal behaviors, such as insufficient or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yifei Chen , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

We study why Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) makes Large Language Models (LLMs) more capable. While LLMs integrated with tools like Python code interpreters show great promise, a principled theory explaining why this paradigm is effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Heng Lin , Zhongwen Xu

Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) offers a direct way to extend thinking models beyond the limits of text-only reasoning. Paradoxically, we observe that tool-enabled evaluation can degrade reasoning performance even when the strong thinking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Qianjia Cheng , Yuchen Zhang , Zhilin Wang , Yuxin Zuo , Shunkai Zhang , Yuchen Fan , Yu Qiao , Bowen Zhou , Ning Ding , Yu Cheng , Yun Luo , Ganqu Cui

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in reasoning tasks through methods like chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. However, they often fall short in tasks requiring precise computations. Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Yufeng Zhao , Junnan Liu , Hongwei Liu , Dongsheng Zhu , Yuan Shen , Songyang Zhang , Kai Chen

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) has significantly enhanced the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet current agents tend to exhibit cognitive offloading, redundantly invoking external tools even for simple tasks. In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Zhaiyu Fang , Ruipeng Sun

In this paper, we investigate code-integrated reasoning, where models generate code when necessary and integrate feedback by executing it through a code interpreter. To acquire this capability, models must learn when and how to use external…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Fei Bai , Yingqian Min , Beichen Zhang , Zhipeng Chen , Wayne Xin Zhao , Lei Fang , Zheng Liu , Zhongyuan Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) enables large language models (LLMs) to enhance their capabilities by interacting with external tools, such as code interpreters (CI). Most recent studies focus on exploring various methods to equip LLMs with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Luan Zhang , Dandan Song , Zhijing Wu , Zhengyu Chen , Chen Zhang , Yuhang Tian , Huipeng Ma , Chenhao Li , Changzhi Zhou , Xudong Li , Shuhao Zhang

Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) has emerged as a dominant paradigm for mathematical problem solving in language models, combining natural language (NL) reasoning with code execution. However, this interleaved setup has three key…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hyeon Hwang , Jiwoo Lee , Jaewoo Kang

Large Language Models (LLMs), when enhanced through reasoning-oriented post-training, evolve into powerful Large Reasoning Models (LRMs). Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) further extends their capabilities by incorporating external tools,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yifan Wei , Xiaoyan Yu , Yixuan Weng , Tengfei Pan , Angsheng Li , Li Du

Large language models (LLMs) often struggle with mathematical problems that require exact computation or multi-step algebraic reasoning. Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) offers a promising solution by leveraging external tools such as code…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xingyue Huang , Xianglong Hu , Zifeng Ding , Yuan He , Rishabh , Waleed Alzarooni , Ziyu Ye , Wendong Fan , Bailan He , Haige Bo , Changran Hu , Guohao Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress in mathematical reasoning, but still continue to struggle with high-precision tasks like numerical computation and formal symbolic manipulation. Integrating external tools has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Qikai Chang , Zhenrong Zhang , Pengfei Hu , Jun Du , Jiefeng Ma , Yicheng Pan , Jianshu Zhang , Quan Liu , Jianqing Gao

Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) augments large language models (LLMs) with the ability to invoke external tools during long-form reasoning, such as search engines and code interpreters, to solve tasks beyond the capabilities of internal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hongru Wang , Cheng Qian , Wanjun Zhong , Xiusi Chen , Jiahao Qiu , Shijue Huang , Bowen Jin , Mengdi Wang , Kam-Fai Wong , Heng Ji

Large Language Models (LLMs) are widely used as judges to evaluate response quality, providing a scalable alternative to human evaluation. However, most LLM judges operate solely on intrinsic text-based reasoning, limiting their ability to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Ran Xu , Jingjing Chen , Jiayu Ye , Yu Wu , Jun Yan , Carl Yang , Hongkun Yu

We introduce ToRL (Tool-Integrated Reinforcement Learning), a framework for training large language models (LLMs) to autonomously use computational tools via reinforcement learning. Unlike supervised fine-tuning, ToRL allows models to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xuefeng Li , Haoyang Zou , Pengfei Liu

Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) extends LLM capabilities by leveraging external environments. However, existing methods lack the deliberation during sequential tool invocation required for strategic planning and self-correction. While RL…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yang He , Xiao Ding , Bibo Cai , Yufei Zhang , Kai Xiong , Zhouhao Sun , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) can significantly improve their reasoning capabilities by interacting with external tools, a paradigm known as Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR). However, extending TIR to multi-turn scenarios using Reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Zhenghai Xue , Longtao Zheng , Qian Liu , Yingru Li , Xiaosen Zheng , Zejun Ma , Bo An

Tool-augmented Language Models (TaLMs) can invoke external tools to solve problems beyond their parametric capacity. However, it remains unclear whether these tool-enabled gains reflect trustworthy reasoning. Focusing on the Code…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Farima Fatahi Bayat , Pouya Pezeshkpour , Estevam Hruschka

In real-world Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR) scenarios, where LLMs interleave reasoning with external tool calls, a major source of inefficiency is that the toolcalls create pauses between LLM requests and cause KV-Cache eviction, forcing…

Performance · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Qisheng Su , Shiting Huang , Zhen Fang , Ziyan Chen , Zehui Chen , Feng Zhao
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