Jinxiang Meng
2026
GATE: Graph-based Adaptive Tool Evolution Across Diverse Tasks
Jianwen Luo | Yiming Huang | Jinxiang Meng | Fangyu Lei | Shizhu He | Xiao Liu | Shanshan Jiang | Bin Dong | Jun Zhao | Kang Liu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Jianwen Luo | Yiming Huang | Jinxiang Meng | Fangyu Lei | Shizhu He | Xiao Liu | Shanshan Jiang | Bin Dong | Jun Zhao | Kang Liu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great promise in tool-making, yet existing frameworks often struggle to efficiently construct reliable toolsets and are limited to single-task settings. To address these challenges, we propose GATE (Graph-based Adaptive Tool Evolution), an adaptive framework that dynamically constructs and evolves a hierarchical graph of reusable tools across multiple scenarios. We evaluate GATE on open-ended tasks (Minecraft), agent-based tasks (TextCraft, DABench), and code generation tasks (MATH, Date, TabMWP). Our results show that GATE achieves up to 4.3× faster milestone completion in Minecraft compared to the previous state-of-the-art method, and provides an average improvement of 9.23% over existing tool-making methods in code generation tasks and 10.03% in agent tasks. Further analysis shows that GATE exhibits strong adaptive evolution capabilities, effectively balancing tool quantity, complexity, and functionality while maintaining high efficiency. Code and data are available at https://github.com/ayanami2003/GATE.