Model-Adaptive Tool Necessity Reveals the Knowing-Doing Gap in LLM Tool Use

arXiv:2605.14038 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-05-13 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-05-13

Updated: 2026-10-22

Terminology

• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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