SAP: State-Guided Data Synthesis with Argument Provenance for Multi-Turn Tool Use
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Abstract (arXiv)
High-quality multi-turn tool-use data is essential for training agentic models, yet existing data synthesis methods often underrepresent the argument-level dependencies that are critical to long-horizon tool use. As a result, even when a model selects the correct tool, task execution may still fail because the model fills tool arguments with fabricated, stale, or weakly grounded values. To address this problem, we propose State-Guided Data Synthesis with Argument Provenance (SAP). SAP combines state guidance, tool-argument provenance constraints, and turn-level validation to efficiently construct tool-use trajectories with long-range dependencies and high accuracy. Using data generated by SAP, we build SAP-4B, which is highly competitive even when compared with much larger models across multiple benchmarks. Source code, synthesized data, and trained weights are available at https://github.com/Zichen1024/SAP.
Key facts. Cited by 1 paper 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 23 of its 32 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 5 Sep 2026.
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- 2025FunReason-MT Technical Report: Advanced Data Synthesis Solution for Real-world Multi-Turn Tool-use28 Oct
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- 2025Rethinking Stateful Tool Use in Multi-Turn Dialogues: Benchmarks and Challenges19 May
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- 2025Magnet: Multi-turn Tool-use Data Synthesis and Distillation via Graph Translation10 Mar
- 2025ToolDial: Multi-turn Dialogue Generation Method for Tool-Augmented Language Models1 Mar
- 2024ToolFlow: Boosting LLM Tool-Calling Through Natural and Coherent Dialogue Synthesis24 Oct
- 2023ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs31 Jul
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- 2025ToolMind Technical Report: A Large-Scale, Reasoning-Enhanced Tool-Use Datasetcited by 30
- 2026CM2: Reinforcement Learning with Checklist Rewards for Multi-Turn and Multi-Step Agentic Tool Usecited by 14
- 2026Unlocking Implicit Experience: Synthesizing Tool-Use Trajectories from Textcited by 13
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- 2026UI-KOBE: Knowledge-Oriented Behavior Exploration for Lightweight Graph-Guided GUI Agentscited by 4
- 2026User-Oriented Multi-Turn Dialogue Generation with Tool Use at scalecited by 2
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