arXiv:2607. 02927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video understanding is moving beyond closed-context perception toward open-world evidence exploration, a paradigm formalized as Video Deep Research (VDR).
WeAgent-MMSearch introduces a multimodal search agent that preserves retrieved images as persistent references, enabling the model to inspect, process, and cite them throughout a search trajectory. The system includes a harness (WeAgent-Harness), a post‑training method (FA‑GSPO) that recovers salvageable rollouts, and a new benchmark (VisTarget‑Bench) to evaluate image‑retrieval versus visual‑perception failures. Evaluation shows that agentic post‑training boosts performance by 19.22 points, allowing the model to outperform similarly sized open‑source models and compete with much larger ones.
arXiv:2607. 13854v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal agents that think with images iteratively manipulate visual evidence and invoke tools across many steps.
arXiv:2607. 24850v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled search agents to autonomously tackle complex tasks across extended search and reasoning horizons.
arXiv:2604. 09508v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual Retrieval-Augmented Generation (VRAG) empowers Vision-Language Models to retrieve and reason over visually rich documents.
arXiv:2607. 21461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research requires agents to find answers that jointly satisfy multiple constraints.
arXiv:2609.08025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning agents increasingly rely on external tools such as web search to answer complex queries. Reinforcement learning (RL) finetuning algorithms su...
arXiv:2608. 03979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Video-DeepResearch (Video-DR), extending multimodal agents from static images to continuous video streams, a setting that demands dense spatiotemporal grounding coupled with open-web exploration.
The Pistis Technical Report introduces the Pistis model family, comprising 27B- and 9B-parameter multimodal large language models built on Qwen3.6 and Qwen3.5. The models are developed through a scalable post‑training framework that begins with large‑scale multimodal supervised fine‑tuning and then applies Interleaved Distillation and Reinforcement Learning (IDRL) to integrate on‑policy distillation and reinforcement learning within a single training loop. Two specialized variants—Pistis‑Thinking for deep multimodal reasoning and Pistis‑Agentic for long‑horizon planning, iterative reasoning, and tool use—are produced at both scales, and a system‑level method called Pistis‑Auto‑Harnessing (PAH) further improves inference harness performance without updating model parameters.
We present SimpleSearch-VL, an efficient, reliable, and practical framework for multimodal agentic search. Its core idea is to improve the agent's own search-and-verification process rather than scaling data, tools, or auxiliary model components.
IterSynth introduces a role-decoupled, iterative synthesis framework for deep search agents, separating planning and synthesis into distinct Planner and Synthesizer modules that maintain a persistent summary state. This design mitigates role coupling and context noise, while the new Role-Decoupled Policy Optimization (RDPO) enhances training by combining outcome rewards with turn-level rubric evaluations. Experiments on five long-horizon benchmarks show IterSynth-8B outperforming prior ≤8B agents by 4.2% and delivering significant zero-shot gains over ReAct on proprietary models.
MMSearch-OPD is a new approach for long‑horizon multimodal search agents that combines a controllable data refinement pipeline with joint reinforcement learning and on‑policy distillation. The refinement process expands reasoning chains from existing simple multimodal questions, allowing adjustable search depth and cross‑modal evidence requirements while reusing image–question pairs. Training uses answer rewards, behavior penalties, and a decaying distillation coefficient to guide the agent, and experiments demonstrate that both data refinement and joint training after supervised fine‑tuning improve long‑horizon multimodal search performance.