Tool Use
Quick Definition
Capability of LLMs to call external tools and APIs
Full Definition
The capability of LLMs to call external tools and APIs during generation.
Examples
web search, code execution, API calls, database queries
Related Terms
function-calling
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More Large Language Models Terms
Autoregressive Model
Generative model predicting next token from previous tokens
Beam Search
Search algorithm exploring multiple output sequences
Scaling Laws
Relationships between model size, data, compute, and performance
Multi-Head Attention
Parallel attention operations concatenated for richer representations
Masked Language Model
Training objective predicting randomly masked input tokens
Reward Model
Model scoring LLM outputs based on human preferences