ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs

Tool use learned by RL with a decomposed reward — format plus correctness beats SFT imitation.

Qian et al. · arXiv 2025 · Reasoning & RL. Read the paper ↗

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What is ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs?

Tool use learned by RL with a decomposed reward — format plus correctness beats SFT imitation.

Who published ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs, and where?

Qian et al. — arXiv 2025 (arXiv:2504.13958).

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