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ToolGrad

A Google data-generation framework that builds verified API workflows first and writes the matching user query afterwards, using plain-text LLM feedback in place of numerical gradients.

Known aliases

ToolGrad-12B
ToolGrad-1B
ToolGrad-4B
ToolGrad-500

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Google's ToolGrad back-writes the user query from a chain it has already executed

A Google XR team fine-tuned Gemma-3 models on data generated answer-first and says they match proprietary LLMs on tools they never trained on. The post's cost and pass-rate claims carry no numbers.

Publishers:research.google

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