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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · August 19, 2026
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This is an unrefereed preprint proposing DART-SD, a computational framework for training multi-turn tool-calling LLM agents by leveraging diamond-topology-aware self-distillation rather than full-trajectory imitation. The work reports that the method outperforms traditional baselines on benchmark tasks, but lacks peer review, quantified effect sizes, and any validation beyond computational experiments.
Preprint. Intervention: DART-SD framework: diamond-topology aware retrieval and tuning with self-distillation, including Interaction-State Transition Graph modelling, Critical Topological Breakpoint identification, and CTB-guided localized supervision.. Compared with: Traditional full-trajectory imitation baselines.
DART-SD significantly outperforms traditional full-trajectory baselines on complex multi-turn tool-calling benchmarks Framework identifies Critical Topological Breakpoints (CTB) to guide localized supervision during training Method preserves valid reasoning prefixes from destructive gradient updates during self-distillation
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Equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with multi-turn tool-calling capabilities is essential for building autonomous agents. However, progress is fundamentally limited by the reliance on full-length trajectory imitation. For tasks involving multiple order-independent sub-goals, the optimal solution space forms a vast combinatorial diamond lattice. Forcing this rich topology into monolithic trajectories causes a severe topological collapse, indiscriminately penalizing valid alternative explorations and severely degrading policy diversity. To address this, we propose DART-SD (Diamond-topology Aware Retrieval and Tuning for Self-Distillation), a novel framework that shifts the paradigm from global forcing to topology-guided localized correction. DART-SD first models the execution process as a converging Interaction-State Transition Graph (ISTG), faithfully capturing the inherent diamond topology of successful and failed exploratory paths. During autonomous rollouts, the framework identifies the Critical Topological Breakpoint (CTB) and retrieves success-supported recovery references. Finally, we introduce a progressive self-distillation paradigm through CTB-guided localized supervision, ensuring that the training loss is calculated exclusively on the generated recovery steps while strictly protecting the valid reasoning prefix from destructive gradient updates. Experiments on complex multi-turn tool-calling benchmarks demonstrate that DART-SD significantly outperforms traditional full-trajectory baselines.
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