The paper introduces a framework for collaborative memory in multi‑agent vision‑language model (VLM) systems, addressing how agents share and update visual context across distributed perception and reasoning tasks. It outlines a memory hierarchy, cross‑agent sharing protocols, and consistency mechanisms to reconcile differing interpretations and recover missing visual information. The design emphasizes preserving not only raw images or textual summaries but also the dependencies among observations, interpretations, and subsequent reasoning, thereby shaping information flow across agents.
By Huixin Zhang, Shao-Jun Xia, Di Wang, Liangxi Liu, Hainan Xiong, Zihao Wang
The paper introduces a text-based, multi-agent version of the board game Clue to test multi-step deductive reasoning in large language models (LLMs). Six LLM-based agents (GPT‑4o‑mini and Gemini‑2.5‑Flash) play turn‑based games, and a tool‑augmented approach uses a structured possibility matrix to convert implicit game state into explicit remaining possibilities, thereby offloading memory and deductive constraints from the agents. The study compares this tool‑augmented method against a baseline to assess its impact on reasoning quality and task success in a strategic reasoning environment.
By Rebecca Ansell, Autumn Toney-Wails
Beacon is a new agentic visual reasoning model that improves multimodal large language models (MLLMs) by better deciding when to use tools and how to use them. It introduces two key concepts—Mode Adaptiveness, which ensures tools are invoked only when necessary, and Tool Effect, which measures the net benefit of tool use— and trains the model with supervised fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning that rewards necessity-aware decisions and expands capability through expert hints. Across 13 benchmarks, Beacon outperforms other open‑source models, achieving the highest average score and the largest net tool‑gain on diagnostic tests.
By Qixun Wang, Yang Shi, Letian Cheng, Zhuoran Zhang, Yan He, Yuqi Tang, Qi Zhang, Xinlei Yu, Ruizhe Chen, Tianrun Xu, Yuanxing Zhang, Pengfei Wan, Haotian Wang, Xianghua Ying
Visual Language Models (VLMs) excel at describing visible scene content but struggle to reason about dynamic multi-agent interactions, where action semantics depend on coordinated roles and spatial-te...
The paper introduces DoublesEval, a diagnostic framework that uses professional doubles badminton to test visual‑language models’ ability to reason about dynamic multi‑agent interactions. It decomposes rallies into key moments and evaluates models across four dimensions—atomic recognition, intra‑segment composite understanding, cross‑segment causal reasoning, and high‑level tactical abstraction—highlighting specific reasoning failures. The authors also propose TacticCheck, a lightweight consistency checker that improves performance without retraining the models, yet significant gaps remain in tactical reasoning.
By Jintao Cheng, Weibin Li
arXiv:2606. 05704v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive reasoning abilities; but they are still susceptible to hallucinations, intermediate reasoning mistakes, and unreliable reasoning results in complex mathematical reasoning problems.
By Muhammad Talha Sharif, Abdul Rehman