Huanyao Zhang

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2026

Training effective AI agents for real-world tool-use interactions requires data that faithfully captures the dynamics of human–agent collaboration. However, such data is scarce, and existing methods often resort to synthetic data generation. The inherently dynamic and complex nature of user–agent interactions makes ensuring data quality particularly challenging. Current verification approaches are typically entangled with the synthesis process itself, resulting in complicated implementations that undermine both reproducibility and scalability. To address this, we introduce Tool-Verifier-7B, a plug-and-play framework for data quality control in tool-use scenarios. Building on this verifier and our data synthesis strategy, we construct the Tool-Verify dataset, which contains 3,295 curated samples. To directly assess verifier performance, we further release Tool-V-Bench, a benchmark of 165 human-validated trajectories spanning diverse interaction complexities. Comprehensive experiments show that Tool-Verifier-7B surpasses Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct on Tool-V-Bench. Moreover, the Tool-Verify dataset achieves superior performance compared to the previous APIGen-MT dataset.
Document Question Answering (DocQA) focuses on answering questions grounded in given documents, yet existing DocQA agents lack effective tool utilization and largely rely on closed-source models. In this work, we introduce DocDancer, an end-to-end trained open-source Doc agent. We formulate DocQA as an information-seeking problem and propose a tool-driven agent framework that explicitly models document exploration and comprehension. To enable end-to-end training of such agents, we introduce an Exploration-then-Synthesis data synthesis pipeline that addresses the scarcity of high-quality training data for DocQA. Training on the synthesized data, the trained models on two long-context document understanding benchmarks, MMLongBench-Doc and DocBench, show their effectiveness. Further analysis provides valuable insights for the agentic tool design and synthetic data.