arXiv:2606. 27974v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires models to combine image understanding with external knowledge.
By ZhengXian Wu, Hangrui Xu, Kai Shi, Zhuohong Chen, Yunyao Yu, Chuanrui Zhang, Zirui Liao, Jun Yang, Zhenyu Yang, Haonan Lu, Haoqian Wang
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.
arXiv:2606. 15231v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in many visual tasks, but they often struggle with factual grounding when confronted with complex, open-world scenarios.
By Zhengbo Zhang, Changtao Miao, Jinbo Su, Zhaowen Zhou, Chunxia Zhang, Xukai Wang, Ruiqi Liu, Kaiyuan Zheng, Jiansheng Cai, Bo Zhang, Zhe Li, Shiming Xiang, Ying Yan
arXiv:2607. 22643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (mRAG) aims to answer image-text queries with external knowledge, but most existing systems still retrieve directly from raw multimodal input over a flat evidence space.
By Tianyu Yang, Shir Simon, Zhenzhen Li, Minhao Cheng, Xiangliang Zhang
arXiv:2607. 08497v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent unified multimodal models show a single architecture can jointly perform vision/language understanding and image generation/editing.
By Feng Wang, Canmiao Fu, Zhipeng Huang, Chen Li, Jing Lyu, Ge Li
ATP‑Bench proposes a new benchmark for evaluating agentic tool planning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that generate interleaved text-and-image responses. The benchmark contains 7,702 QA pairs, including 1,592 visual‑question‑answer pairs, across eight categories and 25 visual‑critical intents, all verified by humans. A Multi‑Agent MLLM‑as‑a‑Judge (MAM) system is introduced to assess tool‑call precision, missed opportunities, and overall response quality without relying on ground‑truth references.
By Yinuo Liu, Zi Qian, Heng Zhou, Jiahao Zhang, Yajie Zhang, Zhihang Li, Mengyu Zhou, Erchao Zhao, Xiaoxi Jiang, Guanjun Jiang
arXiv:2606. 03273v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual DeepSearch tasks require multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to resolve complex visual queries by repeatedly inspecting image regions, grounding reasoning in visual evidence, and connecting fine-grained clues across multiple steps.
By Hang He, Chuhuai Yue, Chengqi Dong, Chengcheng Wan, Ting Su, Haiying Sun, Jiajun Chai, Xiaohan Wang, Guojun Yin
arXiv:2604.07146v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) requires vision-language models to understand images and use external knowledge, especially for...
By Zhuohong Chen, Zhenxian Wu, Yunyao Yu, Hangrui Xu, Zirui Liao, Zhifang Liu, Xiangwen Deng, Pen Jiao, Haoqian Wang
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.
By Yucheng Shen, Jiulong Wu, Jizhou Huang, Dawei Yin, Lingyong Yan, Min Cao
arXiv:2607. 19793v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal agentic search systems increasingly rely on external tools to answer knowledge-intensive visual questions.
By Zhengxian Wu, Junjie Gao, Kai Yang
arXiv:2607. 01813v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluation benchmarks are essential for assessing vision-language models (VLMs), but most multimodal benchmarks are static, making them vulnerable to temporal staleness, data contamination, and costly maintenance.
By Yuanzhi Liu, Shousheng Zhao, Bo Zhou, Kongming Liang, Zhanyu Ma
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.
By Zhen Fang, Yu Zeng, Wenxuan Huang, Yiming Zhao, Shiting Huang, Tianfei Ren, Qi Lu, Qingnan Ren, Qisheng Su, Lionel Z. Wang, Qingyu Yin, Shuang Chen, Zehui Chen, Lin Chen, Zhenfei Yin, Yao Hu, Shaohui Lin, Wanli Ouyang, Shaosheng Cao, Feng Zhao