V‑Retrver is an evidence‑driven retrieval framework that treats universal multimodal retrieval as an agentic reasoning process grounded in visual inspection. It allows multimodal large language models to selectively acquire visual evidence through external tools, alternating between hypothesis generation and targeted visual verification. The approach is trained with a curriculum that blends supervised activation, rejection‑based refinement, and reinforcement learning, achieving an average 23.0% improvement in retrieval accuracy across multiple benchmarks.
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:2606. 28357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal recommenders excel at feature fusion but remain opaque and inefficient decision-makers, lacking explicit reasoning and self-awareness of uncertainty.
arXiv:2602.09839v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Existing multimodal retrieval benchmarks largely emphasize semantic matching on daily-life images and offer limited diagnostics of professional kno...
arXiv:2511. 17731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has proven remarkably effective for eliciting complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs).
arXiv:2610.27341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly in multimodal reasoning, yet they remain limited on tasks requiring fine-grained understanding of s...
SLVR (Structured Latent Visual Reasoning) is a training framework that blends explicit chain-of-thought with latent reasoning for multimodal large language models. It organizes reasoning into typed latent stages—planning, grounding, evidence selection, and integration—each supervised by corresponding signals such as plans, bounding boxes, visual evidence, and final rationales. Built on Qwen2.5‑VL‑7B, SLVR consistently improves performance on multimodal reasoning benchmarks, achieving significant gains on MMVP, BLINK Relation, V*, MathVista, and ChartQA.
The paper introduces Mosaic, a multi-image visual harness that lets large language‑vision models (MLLMs) construct visual intermediates using ten composable image operations. It evaluates five re‑representation settings on existing multi‑image benchmarks and a new grounding‑focused benchmark, MosaicBench, finding that visual re‑representation benefits tasks requiring precise visual evidence more than those dominated by high‑level semantics. MosaicAgent‑8B is trained via reinforcement learning to compose these operations without demonstration trajectories, demonstrating diverse problem‑solving patterns.
VideoLVR introduces a method for multimodal large language models to maintain visual grounding during chain-of-thought reasoning by constructing latent visual evidence from local video regions at relevant moments. It uses a visual token prediction objective that unifies visual evidence reconstruction and text generation, allowing models to interleave text tokens with latent visual states. The approach is further extended with reinforcement learning, treating visual tokens as actions and optimizing policies with final-answer rewards, thereby improving video understanding without expanding the multimodal context.
arXiv:2602. 00104v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-centric retrieval for VQA requires retrieving images to supply missing visual cues and integrating them into the reasoning process.
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).
arXiv:2604. 01280v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to identify and combine fine-grained visual cues with retrieved textual evidence.
The paper introduces EvidenceConnect, a data‑synthesis framework that generates multimodal questions by zooming into related image regions to strengthen the capability of connecting evidence—identifying visual facts, linking them to entities, and composing them into answers. By training vision‑language models on this synthesized data with RLVR, the authors produce Zooming without Zooming v2 (ZwZ2), which improves fine‑grained and spatial perception, embodied spatial reasoning, multimodal long‑context understanding, and general visual reasoning. The results demonstrate that targeting the shared evidence‑connection capability yields more generalizable multimodal perception without tailoring data to specific benchmarks.