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From Fixed Keys to Readable Schemas: Small Language Models for Vehicle Agent Function Calls

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 8, 2026 · UTC

In-vehicle assistants must translate natural-language requests into accurate vehicle function calls under strict memory and latency constraints, making small language models (SLMs) attractive for on-device deployment. For such models, a key design choice is how the available function surface is presented. Two approaches are to represent each function with a dedicated Functional Token (FT) or provide function schemas directly in the prompt. FTs enable compact inference but are restricted to functions learned during training, whereas Schema-in-Prompt (SIP) can generalize to unseen functions at t

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