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  1. Human-Like Attention? A Psychophysical Comparison of Visual Search in Humans and MLLMs

    Oct 4, 2026Renchi Zhang, Joost C. F. de Winter, Dimitra Dodou +2Multiple Vision TasksMultimodal Search Agents

    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  2. Recurrent Latent Visual Search for GUI Grounding

    Oct 4, 2026Kaiyu Wu, Beichen Zheng, Weiyao Huang +1Weak Visual GroundingMultimodal Search Agents

    Sun Yat-sen University

  3. Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents

    Oct 1, 2026Feiyu Gavin Zhu, Xiaoyu Zhu, Jiqi Yang +9Multimodal Search AgentsMultimodal Agents

    Apple · Carnegie Mellon University

  4. AiSearch: Interactive Multi-Modal Search with VLMs

    Oct 1, 2026Ali Koksal, Mei Chee Leong, Vicky Sintunata +2Multimodal Search AgentsMultimodal Retrieval

    Institute of Advanced Intelligence and Computing (IAIC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore

  5. Learning to Route in Visual Space via Multi-Step Embedding Retrieval

    Sep 30, 2026Tianyu Chen, Mingyuan Zhou, Jiaxing WuMultimodal Search Agents

    The University of Texas at Austin · Google DeepMind

  6. HaPRL: Human-Anchored Process Reinforcement Learning for Visual Search Agent

    Sep 29, 2026Zhangquan Chen, Yaoxin Niu, Xiang An +5Multimodal Search Agents

    Tsinghua University · Peng Cheng Laboratory · LMMs-Lab +2

  7. Visual Parallel Search: Learning to Search High-Resolution Images with Parallel Tile Inspection and Adaptive Zoom

    Sep 29, 2026Xijia Tao, Yihua Teng, Xinyu Fu +5Multiple Vision TasksVisual Evidence

    The University of Hong Kong · Huawei Research · City University of Hong Kong +1

  8. PreviewDiff: Multimodal Critic-Guided Search over Diffusion Latents

    Sep 28, 2026Vighnesh Subramaniam, Boris Katz, Brian Cheung +3Diffusion SamplingVideo Generation

    MIT CSAIL · Google Cloud AI Research · UCSF

  9. VisLens: Single-Pass Interpretable Visual Search for Multimodal LLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Jingyi He, Sanghwan Kim, Zeynep AkataMultiple Vision TasksRecent Vision-Language Models

    Technical University of Munich · Helmholtz Munich · Munich Center for Machine Learning

  10. WeAgent-MMSearch: Native Text-Vision Interaction for Multimodal Search Agents

    Aug 28, 2026Zongkai Liu, Hui Zhang, Liqiang Niu +7Multimodal Search Agents

    Weixin AI, Tencent · Sun Yat-sen University

  11. DeepVoyager-VL: Incentivizing Vision-in-the-Loop Search for Long-Horizon Multimodal Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Huanyao Zhang, Jiepeng Zhou, Runhao Zhao +12Multimodal Search AgentsLong-Horizon Task Planning

    1PKU · 2HKUST(GZ) · 3NUDT +3

  12. MMShopBench: A Real-Log Benchmark for Multimodal, Multi-Turn Shopping Agents

    Jul 31, 2026Zeying Hao, Hao Guo, Mengtao Xu +5Multimodal Search AgentsAgentic Commerce

    Alibaba Group

  13. Silent Failures in Multimodal Agentic Search:A Diagnostic Taxonomy and Cross-Judge Evaluation

    Jul 22, 2026Zhengxian Wu, Junjie Gao, Kai YangMultimodal Search AgentsCross-Modal Conflicts

    Ant Group · Hangzhou, China

  14. Pailitao-MMSearch: Building Native E-Commerce Multimodal Search Foundation

    Jul 20, 2026Xiaohan Ye, Xu Chen, Zihan Gong +15Multimodal Search AgentsCross-Modal

    Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba

  15. UNIBROWSE: A Data-to-Agent Framework for Multimodal BrowseComp

    Jul 12, 2026Xiyu Wei, Qingwei Zong, Zhuocheng Yu +1Multimodal Search AgentsInteraction Data

    Key Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, MOE, Peking University · School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University · School of Computer Science, Peking University

  16. Multimodal Scenario Similarity Search for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 10, 2026Tamás Matuszka, András Tamásy, Balázs SzolárNaturalistic Driving DataAutonomous Driving

    aiMotive

  17. SearchEyes: Towards Frontier Multimodal Deep Search Intelligence via Search World Simulation

    Jul 7, 2026Zhengbo Jiao, Yiming Cheng, Yilei Jiang +15Multimodal Search AgentsMultimodal Reasoning Benchmarks

    1MMLab, CUHK · 2THU · 3HKU +6

  18. Search Beyond What Can Be Taught: Evolving the Knowledge Boundary in Agentic Visual Generation

    Jul 6, 2026Haozhe Wang, Weijia Feng, Jinpeng Yu +8Visual GenerationMultimodal Search Agents

    1Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 3Qwen Applications · 4Imperial College London +1

  19. VideoSearcher: Empowering Video Deep Research with Multi-Tool Agentic Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 3, 2026Zhenkun Gao, Yicheng Bao, Jinlong Peng +13Multimodal Search AgentsLong Videos

    East China Normal University · Tencent Youtu Lab · HFIPS, Chinese Academy of Sciences +3

  20. EAGLE-360: Embodied Active Global-to-Local Exploration in 360∘^\circ

    Jul 2, 2026Jingtao Xu, Zizhuo Lin, Jianwen Sun +2Multiple Vision TasksMultimodal Search Agents

    1Zhejiang University · 2Central China Normal University

  21. Modality-Driven Search with Holistic Trace Judging for ARC-AGI-2

    Jun 30, 2026Johan LandReasoning TracesMultimodal Search Agents

    Independent Researcher

  22. SimpleSearch-VL: A Simple Recipe for Multimodal Agentic Deep Search

    Jun 30, 2026Ming Dai, Zhihong Lu, Jinjie Gu +5Multimodal Search AgentsQwen3

    Southeast University · Ant Group

  23. ProMSA:Progressive Multimodal Search Agents for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

    Jun 26, 2026ZhengXian Wu, Hangrui Xu, Kai Shi +8Knowledge-Based Visual Question AnsweringMultimodal Search Agents

    OPPO AI Center, OPPO Inc. China · The Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  24. MSC-CMA-ES: Structure-Aware Restarts for CMA-ES via Cyclic Nearest-Better Basin Discovery

    Jun 14, 2026Dimitar Nedanovski, Svetoslav Nenov, Dimitar PilevMetaheuristicsBasin

    Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski James Baucher Blvd., 1164 Sofia, Bulgaria · Department of Mathematics University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy Sofia, Bulgaria · Department of Informatics University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy Sofia, Bulgaria

  25. Visual-Seeker: Towards Visual-Native Multimodal Agentic Search via Active Visual Reasoning

    Jun 13, 2026Zhengbo Zhang, Changtao Miao, Jinbo Su +10Multimodal Search AgentsCross-Modal

    School of Artificial Intelligence, UCAS · Institute of Automation, CAS · Ant Digital Technologies, Ant Group +2

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

    Jun 5, 2026Fan Zhang, Vireo Zhang, Shengju Qian +7Multimodal Search AgentsMultimodal Understanding

    1CUHK · 2LIGHTSPEED · 3PKU +3

  27. TAPO: Tool-Aware Policy Optimization via Credit Transfer for Multimodal Search Agents

    Jun 4, 2026Chengqi Dong, Chuhuai Yue, Hang He +6Credit AssignmentFrictive Policy Optimization

    University of Science and Technology of China · 2Meituan

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

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

    Pattern Recognition Center, WeChat AI, Tencent Inc. · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Zhongguancun Academy +2

  29. Site4Drug: Predicting Drug-Binding Target Sites with an AI Agent

    Jun 1, 2026Taehan Kim, Sarrah Rose Mikhail Leung, Bharat Mekala +1ProteinMultimodal Search Agents

    UC Berkeley · University of Michigan

  30. CVSearch: Empowering Multimodal LLMs with Cognitive Visual Search for High-Resolution Image Perception

    May 22, 2026Liupeng Li, Haoqian Kang, Zhenyu Lu +4Multiple Vision TasksMultimodal Search Agents

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.

  31. SVFSearch: A Multimodal Knowledge-Intensive Benchmark for Short-Video Frame Search in the Gaming Vertical Domain

    May 18, 2026Lingtao Mao, Huangyu Dai, Xinyu Sun +4Multimodal Search AgentsAgentic Search

    Kuaishou Technology Beijing, China

  32. DRS-GUI: Dynamic Region Search for Training-Free GUI Grounding

    May 15, 2026Yichao Liu, Huawen Shen, Liu Yu +3Graphical User InterfaceMultimodal Search Agents

    1Nankai University · Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  33. Towards On-Policy Data Evolution for Visual-Native Multimodal Deep Search Agents

    May 11, 2026Shijue Huang, Hangyu Guo, Guanting Dong +8Multimodal Search AgentsVisual Reasoning

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Renmin University of China · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +3

  34. Beyond Thinking: Imagining in 360∘^\circ for Humanoid Visual Search

    May 9, 2026Jingdong Zhang, Yizhou Wang, Zhengzhong Tu +3Multimodal Search AgentsSpatial Priors

    Texas A&M University · Adobe

  35. Omni-DeepSearch: A Benchmark for Audio-Driven Omni-Modal Deep Search

    May 9, 2026Tao Yu, yiming ding, Shenghua Chai +16Omni-ModalMultimodal Search Agents

    CASIA · UCAS · BAAI +2

  36. InterLV-Search: Benchmarking Interleaved Multimodal Agentic Search

    May 8, 2026Bohan Hou, Jiuning Gu, Jiayan Guo +5Multimodal Search Agents

    Nanyang Technological University · Damo Academy, Alibaba Group · Shandong University +1

  37. HyperEyes: Dual-Grained Efficiency-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Parallel Multimodal Search Agents

    May 8, 2026Guankai Li, Jiabin Chen, Yi Xu +2Multimodal Search AgentsOffline Reinforcement Learning

    Xiaohongshu Inc. · University of Cambridge

  38. OpenSearch-VL: An Open Recipe for Frontier Multimodal Search Agents

    May 6, 2026Shuang Chen, Kaituo Feng, Hangting Chen +7Multimodal Search AgentsWeak Visual Grounding

    Tencent Hunyuan · University of California, Los Angeles · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +1

  39. ProMMSearchAgent: A Generalizable Multimodal Search Agent Trained with Process-Oriented Rewards

    Apr 22, 2026Wentao Yan, Shengqin Wang, Huichi Zhou +4Multimodal Search AgentsVisual Reasoning

    East China Normal University · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab · University College London +2

  40. DR-MMSearchAgent: Deepening Reasoning in Multimodal Search Agents

    Apr 21, 2026Shengqin Wang, Wentao Yan, Huichi Zhou +4Multimodal Search AgentsMultimodal Agents

    East China Normal University · University College London · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab +2

  41. RaTA-Tool: Retrieval-based Tool Selection with Multimodal Large Language Models

    Apr 16, 2026Gabriele Mattioli, Evelyn Turri, Sara Sarto +4Multimodal Search AgentsMultimodal Large Language Models

    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy · University of Pisa, Italy

  42. MM-BrowseComp: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Multimodal Browsing Agents

    Aug 14, 2025Shilong Li, Xingyuan Bu, Wenjie Wang +22Multimodal Search AgentsMultimodal Retrieval

    1ByteDance · 2Nanjing University · 5Zhejiang University +2