The article discusses the role of AI agents in generative AI, focusing on tool calling and reasoning abilities, and how they can be evaluated using benchmarks like BFCL and Nexus Function Calling Benchmark.
Hugging Face introduces a unified tool use API across multiple model families, making it easier to implement tool use in language models.
Hugging Face has extended chat templates to support tools, offering a unified approach to tool use with the following features:
- Defining tools: Tools can be defined using JSON schema or Python functions with clear names, accurate type hints, and complete docstrings.
- Adding tool calls to the chat: Tool calls are added as a field of assistant messages, including the tool type, name, and arguments.
- Adding tool responses to the chat: Tool responses are added as tool messages containing the tool name and content.
