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
agentic-ai
More Large Language Models Terms
Tree-of-Thought
Framework exploring multiple reasoning paths for optimal solutions
Constitutional AI
Training AI to follow explicit principles for consistency
Flash Attention
Memory-efficient attention using GPU SRAM block computation
SentencePiece
Language-agnostic tokenizer operating on raw text bytes
Semantic Search
Search technique understanding meaning rather than keywords
Prompt Caching
Storing key-value states for repeated prompt prefixes