CREATOR
Tool creation for disentangling abstract and concrete reasoning. EMNLP Findings.
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At a glance
- Type
- Tool creation for reasoning paper fix
- Tier
- T3
- Latest release
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- License
- not applicable — not OSS fix
- GitHub
- not applicable — no GitHub repo fix
- Pricing
- not applicable — not commercial fix
- Funding
- not applicable — not commercial fix
- Freshness
- 2026-10-28 fix
- Layer
- agent-infra repo fix
Memory taxonomy
- storage
- vector
- retrieval
- similarity
- persistence
- cross-session
- update
- extraction
- unit
- skill
- governance
- inspectable
- conflict
- llm-arbitrate
When to use
Optimised for: not applicable - research paper
Anti-fit: not applicable - research paper
Pros & cons
Pros
Tool creation for disentangling abstract and concrete reasoning; EMNLP Findings.
Cons
Created tools quality varies; tool reuse across domains is brittle.
Claims & capabilities
Disentangles abstract tool creation and concrete decision execution; LLMs autonomously generate custom tools using documentation and code. Headline: 59.7% on MATH, 94.7% on TabMWP, 75.5% on the new Creation Challenge; baselines: chain-of-thought, program-of-thought (with/without rectification), tool-use (WolframAlpha API); primary datasets: MATH, TabMWP, and the introduced Creation Challenge (~2K problems).
Technical surface
- API surface
- not applicable — research paper
- Backend storage
- not applicable — research paper
- Deployment
- not applicable — not a deployable product
- Embedding model
- not applicable — research paper
- Multi-tenancy
- not applicable — research paper
- MCP
- not applicable — research paper, no deployed product
- A2A
- not applicable — research paper, no deployed product
- OpenTelemetry
- not applicable — research paper, no deployed product
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Sources (19 cited facts, 0 third-party)
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- What it is Tool creation for reasoning paper
- What it does & what's distinct Tool creation for disentangling abstract and concrete reasoning. EMNLP Findings. paper
- Claims / benefits Disentangles abstract tool creation and concrete decision execution; LLMs autonomously g… paper
- Modalities text paper
- Created 2023-05-23 (arxiv 2305.14318 submitted May 23 2023; EMNLP 2023 Findings) paper
- Mindshare 70 cites · 2.0/mo · 30* / 1 forks · 8 influential SS cites paper
- Citations 70 cites 24/yr paper
- Founders / pedigree no data — no URL in landscape HTML; searched EMNLP CREATOR tool creation reasoning paper
- Memory volume / scale no scale claim — research (EMNLP Findings) paper
- Performance 59.7% MATH 94.7% TabMWP 75.5% Creation Challenge paper
- Reproducibility Independently reproduced (light): 1 forks of https://github.com/qiancheng0/CREATOR; most… repo
- Code/weights release Code public + weights closed — https://github.com/qiancheng0/CREATOR · stale (last commi… repo
- Schema evolution schema with migration paper
- Contradiction handling LLM resolves and overwrites paper
- Pros Tool creation for disentangling abstract and concrete reasoning; EMNLP Findings. paper
- Cons Created tools quality varies; tool reuse across domains is brittle. paper
- Project & sources ACL Anthology paper
- citation-trajectory [{"year":2023,"cum":1,"infl":0},{"year":2025,"cum":4,"infl":0}] paper
- taxonomy-three-layer-rollup agent-infra repo