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Learning How to Use Tools, Not Just When: Pattern-Aware Tool-Integrated Reasoning

arXiv:2509.23292v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tool-integrated reasoning (TIR) has become a key approach for improving large reasoning models (LRMs) on complex problems. Prior work has mainly studied when to invoke tools, while overlooking how tools are applied. We identify two common patterns: a calculator patter