Method Drift›Tool use / function calling
Superseded baseline#7 of 55 most-superseded
StepTool
Tool use / function calling
superseded — cited as a baseline and beaten by newer methods
2 papers critique it · 1 beat it on benchmarks
What papers say
Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites StepTool as a baseline.
“StepTool~yu2024steptool scores each step with GPT-4 during PPO, but the external judge can only score calls that were made, not penalize calls that should not have been, and its knowledge may diverge from the student's.”
— Knowing When to Ask: Segment-Level Credit Assignment for LLM Tool Use“the acquisition of process rewards heavily relies on GPT-based annotations”
— CodeTool: Enhancing Programmatic Tool Invocation of LLMs via Process Supervision
Beaten on benchmarks
Head-to-head results where a newer method reports beating StepTool. Values are copied from the source paper's tables — verify against the cited paper.
- CodeTool: Enhancing Programmatic Tool Invocation of LLMs via Process Supervision
CodeTool beats StepTool · SoPR (Solvable Pass Rate) [Qwen2.5-Coder-7B]
69.75 vs 44.02
Newer alternatives
Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base.