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The Tool-Overuse Illusion: Why Does LLM Prefer External Tools over Internal Knowledge?

Via ArXiv cs.AI
Thursday, Apr 23, 2026 ยท 4:00AM
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arXiv:2604.19749v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Equipping LLMs with external tools effectively addresses internal reasoning limitations. However, it introduces a critical yet under-explored phenomenon: tool overuse, the unnecessary tool-use during reasoning. In this paper, we first reveal this pheno

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