Title: NaviAgent: Bilevel Planning on Tool Navigation Graph for Large-Scale Orchestration
Primary area: applications to computer vision, audio, language, and other modalities
Keywords: Tool learning, LLM, Function Call Agent, Bilevel Planning, Graph Learning, GNN

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated the ability to act as function call agents by invoking external tools, enabling them to solve tasks beyond their static knowledge. However, existing agents typically call tools step by step at a time without a global view of task structure. As tools depend on each other, this leads to error accumulation and limited scalability, particularly when scaling to thousands of tools. To address these limitations, we propose NaviAgent, a novel bilevel architecture that decouples task planning from tool execution through graph-based modeling of the tool ecosystem. At the task-planning level, the LLM-based agent decides whether to respond directly, clarify user intent, invoke a toolchain, or execute tool outputs, ensuring broad coverage of interaction scenarios independent of inter-tool complexity. At the execution level, a continuously evolving Tool World Navigation Model (TWNM) encodes structural and behavioral relations among tools, guiding the agent to generate scalable and robust invocation sequences. By incorporating feedback from real tool interactions, NaviAgent supports closed‑loop optimization of planning and execution, moving beyond tool calling toward adaptive navigation of large‑scale tool ecosystems. Experiments show that NaviAgent achieves the best task success rates across models and tasks, and integrating TWMN further boosts performance by up to 17 points on complex tasks, underscoring its key role in toolchain orchestration.

TL;DR: NaviAgent is a novel bilevel planning framework that decouples task planning from tool execution through graph-based modeling for large‑scale tool orchestration.