Spurious Tool Use: When RL Agents Learn the Wrong Reason to Act
Large language model (LLM) agents increasingly interleave natural language reasoning with external tools such as web search and code execution. These tool-use policies are often optimized via reinforcement learning (RL), which can amplify spurious correlations in the training data. In this work, we study when and why R...
Yi-Wei Yang, Hao-Xiang Zhang, Bing-Bing Wen et al.
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