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RATED: Reliability-Aware AI Agent Tool Retrieval via Execution Dynamics
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
In 30 seconds
- What happened
- RATED framework improves AI agent tool retrieval by combining semantic matching with real-time execution feedback to handle tool failures without retraining.
- Why it matters
- Matters for engineers building AI agents that call external APIs or tools and need reliability when services fail or become unavailable.
- Watch out
- Paper is recent preprint accepted at CIKM 2026; real-world effectiveness depends on how well contextual bandit adaptation generalizes beyond the EcoAgent benchmark.
- agent
- retrieval
- encoder
- fine-tun
- eval
The patterns behind this
- Structure-Aware Codebase Retrieval (Repo Map)
- Tool Retrieval (Tool RAG)
- Speculative & Parallel Tool Execution
Each one covers how the technique works, when it earns its cost, and where it breaks.
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