Xiaomi MiMo Explains Fixing Tool-Call Repetition in MiMo-V2.6 Models

Xiaomi MiMo reports that tool-call repetition in MiMo-V2.6 reached over 0.05% of responses across agent harnesses, causing stalled agents and wasted context. The team traced the cause to an RL flooding penalty set at 32 calls per turn, which missed smaller excess behavior, and replaced the approach with a specialized teacher distilled via MOPD. Repetition rates for both Pro and Flash dropped substantially, at roughly $90,000 versus an estimated $2.31 million for the alternative fix.