Teaching Small Models When Not to Call Functions: Structured Reasoning for Tool Refusal in Low-Resource Languages

Dung Pham Tuan Vo, Thai Trung Tran, Tushar Semwal. Teaching Small Models When Not to Call Functions: Structured Reasoning for Tool Refusal in Low-Resource Languages. In Alistair Moffat, Falk Scholer, Hannah Bast, Marc Najork, Min Zhang 0006, editors, Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026. pages 4221-4226, ACM, 2026. [doi]

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