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We introduce a novel large language model (LLM)-driven agent framework, which iteratively refines queries and filters contextual evidence by leveraging dynamically evolving knowledge. A defining feature of the system is its decoupling of…

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The reasoning capabilities of LLM (Large Language Model) are widely acknowledged in recent research, inspiring studies on tool learning and autonomous agents. LLM serves as the "brain" of the agent, orchestrating multiple tools for…

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Deep research is emerging as a representative long-horizon task for large language model (LLM) agents. However, long trajectories in deep research often exceed model context limits, compressing token budgets for both evidence collection and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Chiwei Zhu , Benfeng Xu , Mingxuan Du , Shaohan Wang , Xiaorui Wang , Zhendong Mao , Yongdong Zhang

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) is a crucial task that aims at linking ambiguous mentions within multimodal contexts to the referent entities in a multimodal knowledge base, such as Wikipedia. Existing methods focus heavily on using complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Liu Qi , He Yongyi , Lian Defu , Zheng Zhi , Xu Tong , Liu Che , Chen Enhong

International enterprises, organizations, and hospitals collect large amounts of multi-modal data stored in databases, text documents, images, and videos. While there has been recent progress in the separate fields of multi-modal data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Farhad Nooralahzadeh , Yi Zhang , Jonathan Furst , Kurt Stockinger

Long-horizon agentic reasoning necessitates effectively compressing growing interaction histories into a limited context window. Most existing memory systems serialize history as text, where token-level cost is uniform and scales linearly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yaorui Shi , Shugui Liu , Yu Yang , Wenyu Mao , Yuxin Chen , Qi GU , Hui Su , Xunliang Cai , Xiang Wang , An Zhang

Long-form video understanding remains a fundamental challenge for current Video Large Language Models. Most existing models rely on static reasoning over uniformly sampled frames, which weakens temporal localization and leads to substantial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chenglin Li , Qianglong Chen , Feng Han , Yikun Wang , Xingxi Yin , Yan Gong , Ruilin Li , Yin Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

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…

Large vision-language models increasingly rely on long-context modeling to reason over documents, hour-level videos, and long-horizon agent trajectories, requiring them to locate relevant evidence across interleaved text and images. Prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Aaron Branson Cigres Li , Zhaowei Wang , Yu Zhao , Yiming Du , Haobo Li , Xiyu Ren , Ginny Wong , Simon See , Lishu Luo , Haodong Duan , Pasquale Minervini , Yangqiu Song

The rise of short-form video platforms and the emergence of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have amplified the need for scalable, effective, zero-shot text-to-video retrieval systems. While recent advances in large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Jiaxin Wu , Xiao-Yong Wei , Qing Li

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made them powerful tools in embodied navigation, enabling agents to leverage commonsense and spatial reasoning for efficient exploration in…

Large language model-based agents operating in long-horizon interactions require memory systems that support temporal consistency, multi-hop reasoning, and evidence-grounded reuse across sessions. Existing approaches largely rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Juexiang Ye , Xue Li , Xinyu Yang , Chengkai Huang , Lanshun Nie , Lina Yao , Dechen Zhan

Although Multimodal Large Language Models have achieved remarkable progress, they still struggle with complex 3D spatial reasoning due to the reliance on 2D visual priors. Existing approaches typically mitigate this limitation either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jiahua Chen , Qihong Tang , Weinong Wang , Qi Fan

Existing large video-language models (LVLMs) struggle to comprehend long videos correctly due to limited context. To address this problem, fine-tuning long-context LVLMs and employing GPT-based agents have emerged as promising solutions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yongdong Luo , Xiawu Zheng , Guilin Li , Shukang Yin , Haojia Lin , Chaoyou Fu , Jinfa Huang , Jiayi Ji , Fei Chao , Jiebo Luo , Rongrong Ji

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal understanding capabilities in Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks by integrating visual and textual features. However, under the challenging ten-choice…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Ao Zhou , Zebo Gu , Tenghao Sun , Jiawen Chen , Mingsheng Tu , Zifeng Cheng , Yafeng Yin , Zhiwei Jiang , Qing Gu

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have made significant strides in visual question-answering for single images. Recent advancements like long-context LMMs have allowed them to ingest larger, or even multiple, images. However, the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Tsung-Han Wu , Giscard Biamby , Jerome Quenum , Ritwik Gupta , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

Long-form multimodal video understanding requires integrating vision, speech, and ambient audio with coherent long-range reasoning. Existing benchmarks emphasize either temporal length or multimodal richness, but rarely both and while some…

Real-world multimodal agents solve multi-step workflows grounded in visual evidence. For example, an agent can troubleshoot a device by linking a wiring photo to a schematic and validating the fix with online documentation, or plan a trip…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhaochen Su , Jincheng Gao , Hangyu Guo , Zhenhua Liu , Lueyang Zhang , Xinyu Geng , Shijue Huang , Peng Xia , Guanyu Jiang , Cheng Wang , Yue Zhang , Yi R. Fung , Junxian He

Long-form video understanding remains challenging for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) due to the inherent tension between computational constraints and the need to capture information distributed across thousands of frames. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Junbo Zou , Ziheng Huang , Shengjie Zhang , Liwen Zhang , Weining Shen

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly rely on long-context modeling for tasks such as document understanding, code analysis, and multi-step reasoning. However, scaling context windows to the million-token level brings prohibitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Jiale Cheng , Yusen Liu , Xinyu Zhang , Yulin Fei , Wenyi Hong , Ruiliang Lyu , Weihan Wang , Zhe Su , Xiaotao Gu , Xiao Liu , Yushi Bai , Jie Tang , Hongning Wang , Minlie Huang