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
agentic-ai
More Large Language Models Terms
Synthetic Data Generation
Using AI to create artificial training data replicating patterns
Positional Encoding
Incorporating token position information into transformers
Embeddings LLM
Dense vectors capturing semantic meaning of text
Streaming
Sending LLM tokens to clients as they are generated
Function Calling
Structured mechanism for LLMs to generate API function calls
Guardrails LLM
Frameworks for monitoring and controlling LLM I/O