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Multimodal large language models (MLLMs), equipped with increasingly advanced planning and tool-use capabilities, are evolving into autonomous agents capable of performing multimodal web browsing and deep search in open-world environments.…

Recent agentic search frameworks enable deep research via iterative planning and retrieval, reducing hallucinations and enhancing factual grounding. However, they remain text-centric, overlooking the multimodal evidence that characterizes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Fangda Ye , Zhifei Xie , Yuxin Hu , Yihang Yin , Shurui Huang , Shikai Dong , Jianzhu Bao , Shuicheng Yan

We introduce a multicrossmodal LLM-agent framework motivated by the growing volume and diversity of materials-science data ranging from high-resolution microscopy and dynamic simulation videos to tabular experiment logs and sprawling…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-22 Adib Bazgir , Rama chandra Praneeth Madugula , Yuwen Zhang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have experienced significant advancements recently. Nevertheless, challenges persist in the accurate recognition and comprehension of intricate details within high-resolution images. Despite being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Haogeng Liu , Quanzeng You , Xiaotian Han , Yiqi Wang , Bohan Zhai , Yongfei Liu , Yunzhe Tao , Huaibo Huang , Ran He , Hongxia Yang

Large language models are transitioning from generalpurpose knowledge engines to realworld problem solvers, yet optimizing them for deep search tasks remains challenging. The central bottleneck lies in the extreme sparsity of highquality…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Zheng Chu , Xiao Wang , Jack Hong , Huiming Fan , Yuqi Huang , Yue Yang , Guohai Xu , Chenxiao Zhao , Cheng Xiang , Shengchao Hu , Dongdong Kuang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin , Xing Yu

Large Language Model (LLM)-based search agents have shown remarkable capabilities in solving complex tasks by dynamically decomposing problems and addressing them through interleaved reasoning and retrieval. However, this interleaved…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tiannuo Yang , Zebin Yao , Bowen Jin , Lixiao Cui , Yusen Li , Gang Wang , Xiaoguang Liu

Contemporary large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems exhibit systematic advantages in deep research tasks, which emphasize iterative, vertically structured information seeking. However, when confronted with wide search tasks…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mingju Chen , Guibin Zhang , Heng Chang , Yuchen Guo , Shiji Zhou

Prevailing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) encode the input image(s) as vision tokens and feed them into the language backbone, similar to how Large Language Models (LLMs) process the text tokens. However, the number of vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shiyu Zhao , Zhenting Wang , Felix Juefei-Xu , Xide Xia , Miao Liu , Xiaofang Wang , Mingfu Liang , Ning Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Licheng Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate enhanced capabilities and reliability by reasoning more, evolving from Chain-of-Thought prompting to product-level solutions like OpenAI o1. Despite various efforts to improve LLM reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yuhao Dong , Zuyan Liu , Hai-Long Sun , Jingkang Yang , Winston Hu , Yongming Rao , Ziwei Liu

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has paved the way for AI search engines, e.g., SearchGPT, showcasing a new paradigm in human-internet interaction. However, most current AI search engines are limited to text-only settings,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Dongzhi Jiang , Renrui Zhang , Ziyu Guo , Yanmin Wu , Jiayi Lei , Pengshuo Qiu , Pan Lu , Zehui Chen , Chaoyou Fu , Guanglu Song , Peng Gao , Yu Liu , Chunyuan Li , Hongsheng Li

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly revolutionized web search. The emergence of LLM-based Search Agents marks a pivotal shift towards deeper, dynamic, autonomous information seeking. These agents can comprehend user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yunjia Xi , Jianghao Lin , Yongzhao Xiao , Zheli Zhou , Rong Shan , Te Gao , Jiachen Zhu , Weiwen Liu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in short video understanding tasks but face great challenges when applied to long video understanding. In contrast, Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit outstanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Hongchen Wei , Zhenzhong Chen

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable problem-solving capabilities by autonomously integrating with external tools for collaborative reasoning. However, due to the inherently complex and diverse nature of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mengjie Deng , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

Deep search has become a crucial capability for frontier multimodal agents, enabling models to solve complex questions through active search, evidence verification, and multi-step reasoning. Despite rapid progress, top-tier multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Shuang Chen , Kaituo Feng , Hangting Chen , Wenxuan Huang , Dasen Dai , Quanxin Shou , Yunlong Lin , Xiangyu Yue , Shenghua Gao , Tianyu Pang

Recent advances in video large language models have demonstrated strong capabilities in understanding short clips. However, scaling them to hours- or days-long videos remains highly challenging due to limited context capacity and the loss…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Woongyeong Yeo , Kangsan Kim , Jaehong Yoon , Sung Ju Hwang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated strong multimodal reasoning capabilities on long and complex documents. However, their high memory footprint makes them impractical for deployment on resource-constrained edge devices.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Tanveer Hannan , Dimitrios Mallios , Parth Pathak , Faegheh Sardari , Thomas Seidl , Gedas Bertasius , Mohsen Fayyaz , Sunando Sengupta

Many cultural institutions have made large digitized visual collections available online, often under permissible re-use licences. Creating interfaces for exploring and searching these collections is difficult, particularly in the absence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Taylor Arnold , Lauren Tilton

Existing benchmarks for multimodal agentic search evaluate multimodal search and visual browsing, but visual evidence is either confined to the input or treated as an answer endpoint rather than part of an interleaved search trajectory. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bohan Hou , Jiuning Gu , Jiayan Guo , Ronghao Dang , Sicong Leng , Xin Li , Xuemeng Song , Jianfei Yang

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) face inherent limitations due to their pre-defined context lengths, which impede their capacity for multi-hop reasoning within extensive textual contexts. While existing techniques like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Weizhi Fei , Xueyan Niu , Guoqing Xie , Yanhua Zhang , Bo Bai , Lei Deng , Wei Han

State-of-the-art retrieval models typically address a straightforward search scenario, in which retrieval tasks are fixed (e.g., finding a passage to answer a specific question) and only a single modality is supported for both queries and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sheng-Chieh Lin , Chankyu Lee , Mohammad Shoeybi , Jimmy Lin , Bryan Catanzaro , Wei Ping