Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

A model self-supervises where to call APIs — keeping only the calls that lower its own loss.

Schick et al. · NeurIPS 2023 · Reasoning & RL. Read the paper ↗

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What is Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools?

A model self-supervises where to call APIs — keeping only the calls that lower its own loss.

Who published Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools, and where?

Schick et al. — NeurIPS 2023 (arXiv:2302.04761).

Where can I find a visual explainer of Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools?

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