Overview

Multimodal agents combine language models with visual, audio, and video perception to answer questions, use tools, and interact with apps, websites, robots, or other environments. Common approaches include planning and tool orchestration, specialized collaborating agents, active evidence gathering, and memory or reusable skills for long tasks; reinforcement learning and execution feedback are increasingly used to improve these behaviors. Benchmarks now test browsing, GUI use, video reasoning, and embodied tasks, often evaluating action traces and process reliability as well as final answers. Despite progress, agents remain brittle over long horizons, and more modalities or more agents do not automatically improve grounding, safety, efficiency, or task success.

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49 papers in the last four weeks, up 20% on the four weeks before. 0.3% of all new papers.

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  1. MedCTA: A Benchmark for Clinical Tool Agents

    Jun 10, 2026Tajamul Ashraf, Hyewon Jeong, Fida Mohammad Thoker +1Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  2. Orchestra-o1: Omnimodal Agent Orchestration

    Jun 10, 2026Fan Zhang, Vireo Zhang, Shengju Qian +8LLM Agent OrchestrationGroup Relative Policy Optimization

  3. IAPO: Input Attribution-Aware Policy Optimization for Tool Use in Small Multimodal Agents

    Jun 10, 2026Yifan Yang, Zhen Zhang, Jiayi Tian +2Tool Use in VLMsReinforcement Learning

  4. Data Journalist Agent: Transforming Data into Verifiable Multimodal Stories

    Jun 9, 2026Kevin Qinghong Lin, Batu EI, Yuhong Shi +5LLM Agent OrchestrationMultimodal Agents

  5. MemVenom: Triggered Poisoning of Multimodal Memories in Web Agents

    Jun 9, 2026Yv Zhang, Hao Sun, Hao Fang +5Agent Memory PoisoningBlack-Box Adversarial Attacks

  6. Kwai Keye-VL-2.0 Technical Report

    Jun 9, 2026Kwai Keye Team, Bin Wen, Changyi Liu +50Temporal Video GroundingLong-Context Modeling

  7. ReasonRec: A Reasoning-Augmented Multimodal Agent for Unified Recommendation

    Jun 8, 2026Yihua Zhang, Mingfu Liang, Jiyan Yang +11Efficient Multimodal InferenceMultimodal CoT Reasoning

  8. SpatialWorld: Benchmarking Interactive Spatial Reasoning of Multimodal Agents in Real-World Tasks

    Jun 8, 2026Hongcheng Gao, Hailong Qu, Jingyi Tang +18Spatial Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Spatial Reasoning

  9. HDRAgent: An Agentic Framework for Multi-Exposure HDR Imaging

    Jun 8, 2026Weiyu Zhou, Tao Hu, Yijian Wang +3Image EnhancementHDR Imaging

  10. A Multi-modal Agentic Co-pilot for Evidence Grounded Computational Pathology

    Jun 6, 2026Zhe Xu, Zhengyu Zhang, Zhiyuan Cai +12Computational PathologyClinical Decision Support

  11. Aligned but Not Partner-Specific: How Multimodal LLM Agents Succeed in Reference Games Without Forming Conceptual Pacts

    Jun 6, 2026Po-Ya Angela Wang, Chinmaya Mishra, Aslı Özyürek +2Repeated GamesLLM Agent Evaluation

  12. Struct-Searcher: Agentic Structural Thinking Advances Multimodal Deep Information Seeking

    Jun 5, 2026Fan Zhang, Vireo Zhang, Shengju Qian +7Multimodal IRBelief Revision

  13. Resonant Minds: Closed-Loop Social Avatars with Theory of Mind

    Jun 4, 2026Jianxu Shangguan, Jing Xu, Hang Ye +4Audio-Video GenerationTheory of Mind

  14. Plan, Watch, Recover: A Benchmark and Architectures for Proactive Procedural Assistance

    Jun 3, 2026Kaustav Kundu, Ritvik Shrivastava, Maxim Arap +14LLM PlanningEgocentric Video Understanding

  15. CP-Agent: Context-Aware Multimodal Reasoning for Cellular Morphological Profiling under Chemical Perturbations

    Jun 2, 2026Yuxin Zhang, Yiyao Li, Ping Shu Ho +3AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryMultimodal Contrastive Learning

  16. Perceive Before Reasoning: A Pre-Reasoning Perception Framework for Efficient and Reliable Proactive Mobile Agents

    Jun 2, 2026Zhijie Ding, Weinan Hong, Zicheng Zhu +6Efficient Multimodal InferenceProactive Assistance

  17. PhotoCraft: Agentic Reasoning with Hierarchical Self-Evolving Memory for Deep Image Search

    Jun 2, 2026Kailin Lyu, Zhiqiang Yuan, Jianwei He +9Multimodal Search AgentsHierarchical Memory

  18. MUSE: A Unified Agentic Harness for MLLMs

    Jun 2, 2026Jianglin Lu, Hailing Wang, Xu Ma +4Multimodal ReasoningMultimodal Agents

  19. HLL: Can Agents Cross Humanity's Last Line of Verification?

    Jun 1, 2026Xinhao Song, Su Su, Sirui Song +6GUI AgentsAI Agent Evaluation

  20. TVIR: Building Deep Research Agents Towards Text-Visual Interleaved Report Generation

    Jun 1, 2026Xinkai Ma, Zhiqi Bai, Dingling Zhang +21Deep Research AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

  21. MetaForge: A Self-Evolving Multimodal Agent that Retrieves, Adapts, and Forges Tools On Demand

    Jun 1, 2026Shouang Wei, Houcheng Min, Xinpeng Dong +8LLM Agent Skill LearningMultimodal Agents

  22. Sandboxed Coding Agents are Competitive Omni-modal Task Solvers

    May 30, 2026Dongping Chen, Xuanao Huang, Zhihan Hu +3Audio-Visual UnderstandingAI Coding Agents

  23. Task-Focused Memorization for Multimodal Agents

    May 29, 2026Tao Zou, Yichen He, Tian Qiu +2Continual Learning for LLM AgentsMultimodal Memory

  24. MineExplorer: Evaluating Open-World Exploration of MLLM Agents in Minecraft

    May 29, 2026Tianjie Ju, Yueqing Sun, Zheng Wu +7Long-Horizon Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

  25. A Theory-Guided LLM Pedagogical Agent for STEM+C Scaffolding Without Over-Reliance

    May 28, 2026Clayton Cohn, Surya Rayala, Siyuan Guo +13Multi-Agent LLM SystemsAI in Education

  26. Towards Verifiable Multimodal Deep Research: A Multi-Agent Harness for Interleaved Report Generation

    May 28, 2026Chenghao Zhang, Guanting Dong, Yufan Liu +3Multimodal GenerationMultimodal Agents

  27. AgentCVR: Active Multi-Agent Cross-Video Reasoning via Script-Simulated Reinforcement Learning

    May 28, 2026Yilun Qiu, Jiahe Wang, Cilin Yan +4Video ReasoningMultimodal Agents

  28. VFEAgent: A Multimodal Agent Framework for End-to-End Automated Finite Element Analysis

    May 27, 2026Jiachen Zhang, Junyi Lao, Chenghao Liu +5Program SynthesisFinite Element Method