arXiv AI September 1, 2026 By Zongkai Liu, Hui Zhang, Liqiang Niu, Zhen Cao, Han Li, Juntao Liu, Wenchao Chen, Chengduo Zhao, Chao Yu, Fandong Meng

WeAgent-MMSearch: Native Text-Vision Interaction for Multimodal Search Agents

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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.

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