ToolOrchestra: Elevating Intelligence via Efficient Model and Tool Orchestration

Description

Orchestrator-8B is a state-of-the-art 8B parameter orchestration model designed to solve complex, multi-turn agentic tasks by coordinating a diverse set of expert models and tools.

On the Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) benchmark, ToolOrchestrator-8B achieves a score of 37.1%, outperforming GPT-5 (35.1%) while being approximately 2.5x more efficient.

This model is for research and development only.

Key Features

Intelligent Orchestration: Capable of managing heterogeneous toolsets including basic tools (search, code execution) and other LLMs (specialized and generalist).
Multi-Objective RL Training: Trained via Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with a novel reward function that optimizes for accuracy, latency/cost, and adherence to user preferences.
Efficiency: Delivers higher accuracy at significantly lower computational cost compared to monolithic frontier models.
Robust Generalization: Demonstrated ability to generalize to unseen tools and pricing configurations.

Benchmark

On Humanity’s Last Exam, Orchestrator-8B achieves 37.1%, surpassing GPT-5 (35.1%) with only 30% monetary cost and 2.5x faster. On FRAMES and τ²-Bench, Orchestrator-8B consistently outperforms strong monolithic systems, demonstrating versatile reasoning and robust tool orchestration.

Orchestrator-8B consistently outperforms GPT-5, Claude Opus 4.1 and Qwen3-235B-A22B on HLE with substantially lower cost.

Model Details

Developed by: NVIDIA & University of Hong Kong
Model Type: Decoder-only Transformer
Base Model: Qwen3-8B
Parameters: 8B
Language(s): English
License: NVIDIA License

Model Version(s):

1.0

Training Dataset:

Link:

Dataset	Link
GeneralThought-430K	Link
ToolScale	Link

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License/Terms of Use

NVIDIA License

Citation

If you find this model useful, please cite our paper:

@misc{toolorchestra,
      title={ToolOrchestra: Elevating Intelligence via Efficient Model and Tool Orchestration}, 
      author={Hongjin Su and Shizhe Diao and Ximing Lu and Mingjie Liu and Jiacheng Xu and Xin Dong and Yonggan Fu and Peter Belcak and Hanrong Ye and Hongxu Yin and Yi Dong and Evelina Bakhturina and Tao Yu and Yejin Choi and Jan Kautz and Pavlo Molchanov},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2511.21689},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21689}, 
}