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LLM Agents Already Know When to Call Tools -- Even Without Reasoning

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Main Authors:	Sun, Chung-En, Liu, Linbo, Yan, Ge, Wang, Zimo, Weng, Tsui-Wei
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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