ToolACE-MT: Non-Autoregressive Generation for Agentic Multi-Turn Interaction
Abstract
Agentic task-solving with Large Language Models (LLMs) requires multi-turn, multi-step interactions, often involving complex function calls and dynamic user-agent exchanges. Existing simulation-based data generation methods for such scenarios rely heavily on costly autoregressive interactions between multiple LLM agents, thereby compromising the practical efficiency of agentic data generation. In this paper, we propose ToolACE-MT, a novel Non-Autoregressive Iterative Generation framework for constructing high-quality multi-turn agentic dialogues. ToolACE-MT generates full conversational trajectories through three stages: coarse-grained initialization, iterative refinement, and offline verification. The initialization phase builds a structurally complete yet semantically coarse dialogue skeleton; the iterative refinement phase introduces realistic complexities and continued refinement via mask-and-fill operations; and the offline verification phase ensures correctness and coherence via rule- and model-based checks. Experiments demonstrate that ToolACE-MT enables efficient, effective and generalizable agentic data generation, offering a new paradigm for high-quality data construction in tool-augmented LLM scenarios.
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Zeng et al. "ToolACE-MT: Non-Autoregressive Generation for Agentic Multi-Turn Interaction." International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026.Markdown
[Zeng et al. "ToolACE-MT: Non-Autoregressive Generation for Agentic Multi-Turn Interaction." International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026.](https://mlanthology.org/iclr/2026/zeng2026iclr-toolacemt/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{zeng2026iclr-toolacemt,
title = {{ToolACE-MT: Non-Autoregressive Generation for Agentic Multi-Turn Interaction}},
author = {Zeng, Xingshan and Liu, Weiwen and Wang, Lingzhi and Li, Liangyou and Mi, Fei and Wang, Yasheng and Shang, Lifeng and Jiang, Xin and Liu, Qun},
booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
year = {2026},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/iclr/2026/zeng2026iclr-toolacemt/}
}