AskToAct: Enhancing LLMs Tool Use via Self-Correcting Clarification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.01940v1
• Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2025 12:55:49 GMT
• Title: AskToAct: Enhancing LLMs Tool Use via Self-Correcting Clarification
• Authors: Xuan Zhang, Yongliang Shen, Zhe Zheng, Linjuan Wu, Wenqi Zhang, Yuchen Yan, Qiuying Peng, Jun Wang, Weiming Lu,
• Abstract summary: We present AskToAct, which exploits structural mapping between queries and their tool invocation solutions.<n>Our key insight is that tool parameters naturally represent explicit user intents.<n>By systematically removing key parameters from queries while retaining them as ground truth, we enable automated construction of high-quality training data.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in tool learning. In real-world scenarios, user queries are often ambiguous and incomplete, requiring effective clarification. However, existing interactive clarification approaches face two critical limitations: reliance on manually constructed datasets and lack of error correction mechanisms during multi-turn clarification. We present AskToAct, which addresses these challenges by exploiting the structural mapping between queries and their tool invocation solutions. Our key insight is that tool parameters naturally represent explicit user intents. By systematically removing key parameters from queries while retaining them as ground truth, we enable automated construction of high-quality training data. We further enhance model robustness by fine-tuning on error-correction augmented data using selective masking mechanism, enabling dynamic error detection during clarification interactions. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that AskToAct significantly outperforms existing approaches, achieving above 79% accuracy in recovering critical unspecified intents and enhancing clarification efficiency by an average of 48.34% while maintaining high accuracy in tool invocation. Our framework exhibits robust performance across varying complexity levels and successfully generalizes to entirely unseen APIs without additional training, achieving performance comparable to GPT-4 with substantially fewer computational resources.

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