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agentsPublished: February 9, 2023

Toolformer: Language models can teach themselves to use tools

By Timo Schick, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Roberto Dessì, Roberta Raileanu, Maria Lomeli, Luke Zettlemoyer, Nicola Cancedda, Thomas Scialom

Research TL;DR

"Demonstrates how LLMs can autonomously learn to utilize external APIs. Teaches the model to insert executable API calls directly into its output text."

Abstract

We introduce Toolformer, a model trained to decide which APIs to call, when to call them, what arguments to pass, and how to best incorporate the results. Toolformer uses self-supervised learning to insert API calls into text, achieving significant improvements on zero-shot tasks.

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