# Paper: Brief Is Better: Non-Monotonic Chain-of-Thought Budget Effects in Function-Calling Language Agents

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type: paper
title: "Brief Is Better: Non-Monotonic Chain-of-Thought Budget Effects in Function-Calling Language Agents"
authors: Xuan Qi
year: 2026
venue: arXiv
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02155
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source: arxiv
collected_at: 2026-07-08
published_at: 2026-04-02
updated_at: 2026-04-02
status: queued
relevance: high
topics:
  - agent-evaluation
  - rag
  - reasoning
  - tool-use
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datasets:
  - cs.CL
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collection_score: 14
collection_queries: function-calling, language-agent
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## One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

## Why Collected

- matched queries: function-calling, language-agent
- inferred topics: agent-evaluation, rag, reasoning, tool-use
- arXiv categories: cs.CL
- collection score: 14

## Review Checklist

- Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
- Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
- Should it be promoted from `queued` to `skimmed` or `summarized`?

## Links

- arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02155