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Recent advances in multimodal question answering have primarily focused on combining heterogeneous modalities or fine-tuning multimodal large language models. While these approaches have shown strong performance, they often rely on a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Krishna Singh Rajput , Tejas Anvekar , Chitta Baral , Vivek Gupta

Training multimodal agents via reinforcement learning for knowledge-intensive visual reasoning is fundamentally hindered by the extreme sparsity of outcome-based supervision and the unpredictability of live web environments. To resolve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Wentao Yan , Shengqin Wang , Huichi Zhou , Yihang Chen , Kun Shao , Yuan Xie , Zhizhong Zhang

Deep research has emerged as an important task that aims to address hard queries through extensive open-web exploration. To tackle it, most prior work equips large language model (LLM)-based agents with opaque web search APIs, enabling…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Chuan Meng , Litu Ou , Sean MacAvaney , Jeff Dalton

As agentic foundation models continue to evolve, how to further improve their performance in vertical domains has become an important challenge. To this end, building upon Tongyi DeepResearch, a powerful agentic foundation model, we focus…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zhichao Lin , Zhichao Liang , Gaoqiang Liu , Meng Xu , Baoyu Xiang , Shuxin Zhao , Yao Wu , Jian Xu , Guanjun Jiang

The exponential growth of data-driven systems and AI technologies has intensified the demand for high-quality web-sourced datasets. While existing datasets have proven valuable, conventional web data collection approaches face significant…

Existing multimodal retrieval systems excel at semantic matching but implicitly assume that query-image relevance can be measured in isolation. This paradigm overlooks the rich dependencies inherent in realistic visual streams, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chenlong Deng , Mengjie Deng , Junjie Wu , Dun Zeng , Teng Wang , Qingsong Xie , Jiadeng Huang , Shengjie Ma , Changwang Zhang , Zhaoxiang Wang , Jun Wang , Yutao Zhu , Zhicheng Dou

Causal discovery is an imperative foundation for decision-making across domains, such as smart health, AI for drug discovery and AIOps. Traditional statistical causal discovery methods, while well-established, predominantly rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 ChengAo Shen , Zhengzhang Chen , Dongsheng Luo , Dongkuan Xu , Haifeng Chen , Jingchao Ni

Since the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), various research based on such models have maintained significant academic attention and impact, especially in AI and robotics. In this paper, we propose a multi-agent framework with LLMs to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Junhong Chen , Ziqi Yang , Haoyuan G Xu , Dandan Zhang , George Mylonas

We introduce DeepSearchQA, a 900-prompt benchmark for evaluating agents on difficult multi-step information-seeking tasks across 17 different fields. Unlike traditional benchmarks that target single answer retrieval or broad-spectrum…

Existing multimodal browsing benchmarks often fail to require genuine multimodal reasoning, as many tasks can be solved with text-only heuristics without vision-in-the-loop verification. We introduce MMSearch-Plus, a 311-task benchmark that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xijia Tao , Yihua Teng , Xinxing Su , Xinyu Fu , Jihao Wu , Chaofan Tao , Ziru Liu , Haoli Bai , Rui Liu , Lingpeng Kong

Multi-step agentic retrieval systems based on large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in complex information search tasks. However, these systems still face significant challenges in practical applications,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Chuzhan Hao , Wenfeng Feng , Yuewei Zhang , Hao Wang

Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (mRAG) plays an important role in mitigating the "hallucination" issue inherent in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Although promising, existing heuristic mRAGs typically predefined fixed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yangning Li , Yinghui Li , Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Zhen Zhang , Xinran Zheng , Hui Wang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Philip S. Yu , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Large language models (LLMs) excel at natural language tasks but are limited by their static parametric knowledge, especially in knowledge-intensive task. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) mitigates this by integrating external…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yi Jiang , Lei Shen , Lujie Niu , Sendong Zhao , Wenbo Su , Bo Zheng

Deep Research Agents are a prominent category of LLM-based agents. By autonomously orchestrating multistep web exploration, targeted retrieval, and higher-order synthesis, they transform vast amounts of online information into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Mingxuan Du , Benfeng Xu , Chiwei Zhu , Xiaorui Wang , Zhendong Mao

The rapid progress of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC) tools enables images, videos, and visualizations to be created on demand for webpage design, offering a flexible and increasingly adopted paradigm for modern UI/UX.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yan Li , Zezi Zeng , Yifan Yang , Yuqing Yang , Ning Liao , Weiwei Guo , Lili Qiu , Mingxi Cheng , Qi Dai , Zhendong Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Xue Yang , Ji Li , Lijuan Wang , Chong Luo

In the rapidly evolving landscape of information retrieval, search engines strive to provide more personalized and relevant results to users. Query suggestion systems play a crucial role in achieving this goal by assisting users in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Zheng Wang , Bingzheng Gan , Wei Shi

We propose a methodology that combines several advanced techniques in Large Language Model (LLM) retrieval to support the development of robust, multi-source question-answer systems. This methodology is designed to integrate information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Antony Seabra , Claudio Cavalcante , Joao Nepomuceno , Lucas Lago , Nicolaas Ruberg , Sergio Lifschitz

With the advancement of large language models (LLMs) in their knowledge base and reasoning capabilities, their interactive modalities have evolved from pure text to multimodality and further to agentic tool use. Consequently, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yipeng Yu

Deep reasoning is fundamental for solving complex tasks, especially in vision-centric scenarios that demand sequential, multimodal understanding. However, existing benchmarks typically evaluate agents with fully synthetic, single-turn…

Agentic web search increasingly faces two distinct demands: deep reasoning over a single target, and structured aggregation across many entities and heterogeneous sources. Current systems struggle on both fronts. Breadth-oriented tasks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Yuxuan Huang , Yihang Chen , Zhiyuan He , Yuxiang Chen , Ka Yiu Lee , Huichi Zhou , Weilin Luo , Meng Fang , Jun Wang