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
73.7Adoption
84
Quality
88
Freshness
66
Citations
90
Engagement
0
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