11 papers
TAPO: Tool-Aware Policy Optimization via Credit Transfer for Multimodal Search Agents
Chengqi Dong, Chuhuai Yue, Hang He +6
We identify and formally characterize credit misassignment as a systematic failure mode of GRPO in tool-augmented multimodal search agents: its uniform broadcast of trajectory-leve…
VistaHop: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Visual DeepSearch
Hang He, Chuhuai Yue, Chengqi Dong +6
Visual DeepSearch tasks require multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to resolve complex visual queries by repeatedly inspecting image regions, grounding reasoning in visual evi…
LocalSearchBench: Benchmarking Agentic Search in Real-World Local Life Services
Hang He, Chuhuai Yue, Chengqi Dong +12
Recent advances in large reasoning models LRMs have enabled agentic search systems to perform complex multi-step reasoning across multiple sources. However, most studies focus on g…
Training Multi-Image Vision Agents via End2End Reinforcement Learning
Chengqi Dong, Chuhuai Yue, Hang He +7
Recent VLM-based agents aim to replicate OpenAI O3's "thinking with images" via tool use, yet most open-source methods restrict inputs to a single image, limiting their applicabili…
A Very Big Video Reasoning Suite
Maijunxian Wang, Ruisi Wang, Juyi Lin +53
Rapid progress in video models has largely focused on visual quality, leaving their reasoning capabilities underexplored. Video reasoning grounds intelligence in spatiotemporally c…
VULCA-Bench: A Multicultural Vision-Language Benchmark for Evaluating Cultural Understanding
Haorui Yu, Diji Yang, Hang He +2
We introduce VULCA-Bench, a multicultural art-critique benchmark for evaluating Vision-Language Models' (VLMs) cultural understanding beyond surface-level visual perception. Existi…