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Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

by Meta AI · free · Last verified 2026-03-17

Presents Toolformer, a model that learns to use external tools (APIs) in a self-supervised manner without requiring human annotations. The model decides which APIs to call, how to call them, and how to incorporate results, achieving strong performance across diverse tasks while maintaining generative language modeling ability.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761
B+
B+Good
Adoption: AQuality: AFreshness: BCitations: A+Engagement: F

Specifications

License
Open Access
Pricing
free
Capabilities
tool-use, api-integration, self-supervised-learning, zero-shot
Integrations
Use Cases
agent-development, research, tool-augmented-generation
API Available
No
Tags
tool-use, self-supervised, api-calling, language-models
Added
2026-03-17
Completeness
100%

Index Score

73.7
Adoption
84
Quality
88
Freshness
66
Citations
90
Engagement
0

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