PixelRAG shows that operating RAG entirely over web screenshots outperforms text-based retrieval on NQ, SimpleQA, MMSearch, LiveVQA, and MoNaCo, with up to 18.1% accuracy gains and 3x token savings via image compression.
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SVFSearch is the first open benchmark for short-video frame search in the Chinese gaming domain, providing a frozen retrieval environment and showing performance gaps of 13-29 points between direct QA models, practical agents, and oracle knowledge.
FIKA-Bench is a leakage-aware benchmark of 311 instances showing that even the best large multimodal models and tool-equipped agents reach only 25.1% accuracy on fine-grained recognition questions that require external evidence search and verification.
WebEye benchmark and Pixel-Searcher agent enable visual perception tasks by using web search to resolve object identities before precise localization or answering.
ZipRerank delivers state-of-the-art multimodal listwise reranking accuracy for long documents at up to 10x lower latency via early interaction and single-pass scoring.
VISOR is a unified agentic VRAG framework with Evidence Space structuring, visual action evaluation/correction, and dynamic sliding-window trajectories trained via GRPO-based RL that achieves SOTA performance on long-horizon visual reasoning benchmarks.
VideoDR is a new benchmark for open-web video deep research that tests multimodal models on cross-frame visual anchor extraction, interactive retrieval, and multi-hop reasoning over joint video-web evidence.
IMAgent trains a multi-image vision agent via pure end-to-end RL with visual reflection tools and a two-layer motion trajectory masking strategy, reaching SOTA on single- and multi-image benchmarks while revealing tool-use effects on attention.
MMSearch-R1 uses reinforcement learning to train multimodal models for on-demand multi-turn internet search with image and text tools, outperforming same-size RAG baselines and matching larger ones while cutting search calls by over 30%.
TAPO corrects credit misassignment in RL for multimodal search agents by using tool parameter similarity to share advantages across equivalent actions.
AXPO addresses the Thinking-Acting Gap in agentic RL training by targeted resampling of tool calls in all-wrong subgroups, delivering +1.8pp gains over GRPO on nine multimodal benchmarks with an 8B model beating a 32B baseline on Pass@4.
HyperEyes presents a parallel multimodal search agent using dual-grained efficiency-aware RL with a new TRACE reward and IMEB benchmark, claiming 9.9% higher accuracy and 5.3x fewer tool calls than prior open-source agents.
DR-MMSearchAgent derives batch-wide trajectory advantages and uses differentiated Gaussian rewards to prevent premature collapse in multimodal agents, outperforming MMSearch-R1 by 8.4% on FVQA-test.
LMM-Searcher uses file-based visual UIDs and a fetch tool plus 12K synthesized trajectories to fine-tune a multimodal agent that scales to 100-turn horizons and reaches SOTA among open-source models on MM-BrowseComp and MMSearch-Plus.
DeepEyesV2 uses a two-stage cold-start plus reinforcement learning pipeline to produce an agentic multimodal model that adaptively invokes tools and outperforms direct RL on real-world reasoning benchmarks.
WebWatcher introduces a vision-language deep research agent trained on synthetic multimodal trajectories and RL that outperforms baselines on VQA benchmarks, along with a new BrowseComp-VL evaluation.
Proposes image-bank harness and ODE closed-loop data generation to boost multimodal deep search agents, reporting average score gains from 24.9% to 39.0% on 8 benchmarks for 8B model and 30.6% to 41.5% for 30B.
GLM-5V-Turbo integrates multimodal perception as a core part of reasoning and execution for agentic tasks, reporting strong results in visual tool use and multimodal coding while keeping text-only performance competitive.
A sandbox-trained multimodal search agent with process-oriented rewards transfers zero-shot to real Google Search and outperforms prior methods on FVQA, InfoSeek, and MMSearch.
Valley3 is an omni MLLM for e-commerce that uses a four-stage pre-training pipeline plus post-training for controllable reasoning and agentic search, outperforming baselines on e-commerce benchmarks while staying competitive on general ones.
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SVFSearch: A Multimodal Knowledge-Intensive Benchmark for Short-Video Frame Search in the Gaming Vertical Domain
SVFSearch is the first open benchmark for short-video frame search in the Chinese gaming domain, providing a frozen retrieval environment and showing performance gaps of 13-29 points between direct QA models, practical agents, and oracle knowledge.
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TAPO: Tool-Aware Policy Optimization via Credit Transfer for Multimodal Search Agents
TAPO corrects credit misassignment in RL for multimodal search agents by using tool parameter similarity to share advantages across equivalent actions.
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Valley3: Scaling Omni Foundation Models for E-commerce
Valley3 is an omni MLLM for e-commerce that uses a four-stage pre-training pipeline plus post-training for controllable reasoning and agentic search, outperforming baselines on e-commerce benchmarks while staying competitive on general ones.