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Close the Loop: Synthesizing Infinite Tool-Use Data via Multi-Agent Role-Playing

arXiv 2512.23611 ↗First posted 29 Dec 2025cs.CLcited by 9

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Tool learning and function calling

Abstract (arXiv)

Enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to reliably invoke external tools remains a critical bottleneck for autonomous agents. Existing approaches suffer from three fundamental challenges: expensive human annotation for high-quality trajectories, poor generalization to unseen tools, and quality ceilings inherent in single-model synthesis that perpetuate biases and coverage gaps. We introduce InfTool, a fully autonomous framework that breaks these barriers through self-evolving multi-agent synthesis. Given only raw API specifications, InfTool orchestrates three collaborative agents (User Simulator, Tool-Calling Assistant, and MCP Server) to generate diverse, verified trajectories spanning single-turn calls to complex multi-step workflows. The framework establishes a closed loop: synthesized data trains the model via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with gated rewards, the improved model generates higher-quality data targeting capability gaps, and this cycle iterates without human intervention. Experiments on the Berkeley Function-Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) demonstrate that InfTool transforms a base 32B model from 19.8% to 70.9% accuracy (+258%), surpassing models 10x larger and rivaling Claude-Opus, and entirely from synthetic data without human annotation.

Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Tool learning and function calling, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 13 of its 26 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 29 Dec 2025.

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13 of 26 references.

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  1. 2024ADC: Enhancing Function Calling Via Adversarial Datasets and Code Line-Level Feedback23 Dec
  2. 2024Facilitating Multi-turn Function Calling for LLMs via Compositional Instruction Tuning16 Oct
  3. 2023ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs31 Jul
  4. 2023Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with Massive APIs24 May
  5. 2023Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools9 Feb

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  1. 2026UniToolCall: Unifying Tool-Use Representation, Data, and Evaluation for LLM Agents
  2. 2025TOUCAN: Synthesizing 1.5M Tool-Agentic Data from Real-World MCP Environments
  3. 2025FABRIC: Framework for Agent-Based Realistic Intelligence Creation
  4. 2026ToolWeave: Structured Synthesis of Complex Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Dialogues
  5. 2025Generalizable End-to-End Tool-Use RL with Synthetic CodeGym
  6. 2025TRAJECT-Bench:A Trajectory-Aware Benchmark for Evaluating Agentic Tool Use
  7. 2025Multi-Mission Tool Bench: Assessing the Robustness of LLM based Agents through Related and Dynamic Missions
  8. 2026OpaqueToolsBench: Learning Nuances of Tool Behavior Through Interaction