Searcharxiv⌕ Search

arXiv · 2610.13335

AgentTune: A Unified Training Lifecycle for Tool-Using LLM Agents

Abstract

Tool-using agents increasingly require a common substrate for building, training, evaluating, distilling, and maintaining agentic systems, yet existing tooling typically addresses these stages in isolation. We present AgentTune, a source-available Python library that provides a unified framework for developing and optimizing tool-using agents. At its core, AgentTune introduces a two-tier EventLog representation that preserves agent trajectories while supporting consistent projections for training, evaluation, and auditing. Building on this substrate, the library provides a shared agent runtime, tool-calling reinforcement learning, agentic distillation, retrieval-augmented generation, decision workflows, evaluation utilities, and a designed path toward self-healing agents. These components are exposed through composable interfaces so that agent strategies, training methods, evaluation procedures, and recovery mechanisms can be combined without requiring separate representations or pipelines. We demonstrate the framework across agentic tasks including legal contract search and domain-specific applications, illustrating its use for trajectory-based optimization, tool-use evaluation, and cross-task agent development. AgentTune is released as a source-available library at https://github.com/Lexsi-Labs/AgentTune

Explore related subjects

Keep this discovery

Explore connections, maps & timelines

BibTeXRIS

R E Zera Marveen Lyngkhoi, Abhivansh Gupta, Vidushee Vats, Ram Mohan Rao Kadiyala, Vinay Kumar Sankarapu, Pratinav Seth. 2026-10-09. AgentTune: A Unified Training Lifecycle for Tool-Using LLM Agents. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.13335

Cite the original work for its findings. Save a collection to share your selection of sources.

KEEP EXPLORING

Related papers

Instance-Level Difficulty: A Missing Perspective in Machine Unlearning

Current research on deep machine unlearning primarily focuses on improving or evaluating the overall effectiveness of unlearning methods while overlooking the varying difficulty of unlearning individual training samples. As a result, the broader feasibility of machine unlearning remains under-explored. This paper studies the cruxes that make machine unlearning difficult through a thorough instance-level unlearning performance analysis over various unlearning algorithms and datasets. In particular, we summarize four factors that make unlearning a data point difficult, and we empirically show that these factors are independent of a specific unlearning algorithm but only relevant to the target model and its training data. Given these findings, we argue that machine unlearning research should pay attention to the instance-level difficulty of unlearning.

cs.LG↗

Deep End-to-End Survival Analysis with Temporal Consistency

In this study, we present a novel Survival Analysis algorithm designed to efficiently handle large-scale longitudinal data. Our approach draws inspiration from Reinforcement Learning principles, particularly the Deep Q-Network paradigm, extending Temporal Learning concepts to Survival Regression. A central argument in our method relies on temporal consistency, a recursive consistency condition between survival predictions made at consecutive states. Our framework introduces a delayed target network that decouples the generation of temporally consistent training targets from model updates, providing a more stable training signal while enabling mini-batch optimization and end-to-end training. Additionally, it supports arbitrarily complex architectures, enabling the modeling of intricate temporal dependencies. Through numerous experiments we provide empirical evidence demonstrating our framework's ability to exploit temporal consistency across datasets of varying sizes. Moreover, our algorithm outperforms benchmarks on datasets with long sequences, demonstrating its ability to capture long-term patterns. Finally, ablation studies show that the degree of target delay has a substantial effect on predictive performance and training variability. Across two distinct survival model families, delayed target updates consistently improve over the same-timescale baseline.

cs.LG↗

Conditional Vendi Score: Prompt-Aware Diversity Evaluation for Generative AI Models and LLMs

Generative models guided by text prompts are widely evaluated for fidelity and prompt alignment, yet their ability to produce diverse outputs remains underexplored. Existing diversity metrics such as Vendi and RKE, which are based on the von Neumann and Rényi entropies of kernel matrices, were developed for unconditional models and cannot distinguish prompt-induced from model-induced variability. We address this gap by introducing \textit{Conditional-Vendi} and \textit{Conditional-RKE}, diversity measures derived from the conditional entropy of positive semidefinite matrices. These scores isolate model-induced diversity in prompt-guided generation, with Conditional-RKE enjoying an $O(1/\sqrt{n})$ convergence rate. For Conditional-Vendi, we introduce a truncated-spectrum approximation that yields scalable and consistent estimates. Experiments on text-to-image, image-captioning, and LLM tasks show that the conditional scores recover ground-truth diversity orderings and can also guide diffusion models toward more diverse samples. The codebase is available at https://github.com/mjalali/conditional-vendi.

cs.LG↗