← openxiv:cs.AI.2026.00002 · cs.AI
FED-GRAPH-MCP: Scaling LLM Tool Discovery via Sparsified Functional Graphs and Incremental Synchronization
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AI agents need to quickly find the right tools from over 10,000 servers. Older methods treat each tool in isolation, ignoring how tools depend on one another or change over time. To solve this, researchers built a system called FED-GRAPH-MCP. It creates a map, or graph, that shows the relationships between tools. The system uses two types of information: the structure of the graph and the meaning of tool descriptions. It also updates the graph instantly whenever tools are added, changed, or deleted. Test results showed the graph uses 95.6% less memory, which prevents crashes. Each task required 4.7 to 5.6% fewer words (tokens) to find the right tools. And updating the graph was 96.5% to 99.9% faster than rebuilding it from scratch.
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