Tool Use
Quick Definition
Capability of LLMs to call external tools and APIs
Full Definition
The capability of LLMs to call external tools and APIs during generation.
Examples
web search, code execution, API calls, database queries
Related Terms
function-calling
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More Large Language Models Terms
Linear Attention
Attention with linear complexity for long sequences
Constitutional AI
Training AI to follow explicit principles for consistency
Next Token Prediction
Core LLM objective predicting the next token from context
KV Cache
Memory optimization storing key-values for faster generation
Beam Search
Search algorithm exploring multiple output sequences
RoPE
Position encoding using rotation matrices for relative positions