Minpeng Liao
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2026
Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains
The paper argues that observed gains in multimodal agents using tools may be due to learning tool-calling patterns rather than genuine capability expansion, finding that tool access provides little consistent aggregate improvement.
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cs.CVcs.AIRecentJun 1, 2026
Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains
Garvin Guo, Donglei Yu, Yu Chen, Xiang Wang +5 more
The paper argues that observed gains in multimodal agents using tools may be due to learning tool-calling patterns rather than genuine capability expansion, finding that tool access provides little co…
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