Instructions to use MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.

Libraries

How to use MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B with Transformers:

# Use a pipeline as a high-level helper
from transformers import pipeline

pipe = pipeline("text-generation", model="MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
pipe(messages)

# Load model directly
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B", device_map="auto")
messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Who are you?"},
]
inputs = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(
	messages,
	add_generation_prompt=True,
	tokenize=True,
	return_dict=True,
	return_tensors="pt",
).to(model.device)

outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=40)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0][inputs["input_ids"].shape[-1]:]))

Notebooks
Google Colab
Kaggle
Local Apps Settings

vLLM

How to use MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B with vLLM:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install vLLM from pip:
pip install vllm
# Start the vLLM server:
vllm serve "MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B"
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker

docker model run hf.co/MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B

SGLang

How to use MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B with SGLang:

Install from pip and serve model

# Install SGLang from pip:
pip install sglang
# Start the SGLang server:
python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
    --model-path "MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B" \
    --host 0.0.0.0 \
    --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Use Docker images

docker run --gpus all \
    --shm-size 32g \
    -p 30000:30000 \
    -v ~/.cache/huggingface:/root/.cache/huggingface \
    --env "HF_TOKEN=<secret>" \
    --ipc=host \
    lmsysorg/sglang:latest \
    python3 -m sglang.launch_server \
        --model-path "MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B" \
        --host 0.0.0.0 \
        --port 30000
# Call the server using curl (OpenAI-compatible API):
curl -X POST "http://localhost:30000/v1/chat/completions" \
	-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
	--data '{
		"model": "MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B",
		"messages": [
			{
				"role": "user",
				"content": "What is the capital of France?"
			}
		]
	}'

Docker Model Runner
How to use MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B with Docker Model Runner:
```
docker model run hf.co/MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B
```

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license: apache-2.0
base_model:
  - MidTool/Arctic-MidTool-MT-8B
library_name: transformers
pipeline_tag: text-generation
datasets:
  - MidTool/MidTool-Mix
tags:
  - agentic
  - tool-use
  - function-calling
  - reinforcement-learning
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  the MidTool-Mix dataset this model was trained on
  (https://huggingface.co/datasets/MidTool/MidTool-Mix/blob/main/LICENSE). The
  model is provided as is, without warranty of any kind. The authors accept no
  liability for its outputs or for any use made of it.
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Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B

The final 8B agent from the MidTool recipe: Qwen3-8B-Base → mid-training on MidTool-Mix → tool-use SFT → agentic RL. Start here if you want a model to run, rather than one to train further (Arctic-MidTool-MT-8B is the mid-training checkpoint).

Results

8B model	BFCLv3 Overall	τ²-Bench Pass@1	MCP-Universe Score
Qwen3-8B (official)	26.45	10.43	13.06
Qwen3-8B-Base + SFT + RL	45.79	17.63	15.67
Arctic-MidTool-RL-8B	55.12	21.31	25.16

Largest gains are on multi-turn BFCL (37.63 vs 29.25) and MCP-Universe, which stresses execution against real MCP servers.

Tool calls are emitted in the Qwen3 <tool_call> format; pass your schemas via the tools= argument of the chat template. Thinking mode is disabled in our evaluation setup.

Details

Mid-trained on MidTool-Mix; see the dataset's LICENSE for data terms.

See our paper for the full data, training, and evaluation details.

@article{jiang2026midtool,
  title  = {MidTool: Mid-training Data Synthesis for Agentic Tool Use},
  author = {Jiang, Fengqing and Wang, Yite and Liu, Boyi and Wang, Zhaoyang and
            Xu, Canwen and Yao, Zhewei and Poovendran, Radha and He, Yuxiong},
  year   = {2026}
}