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PublishedSeptember 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
LiteSearch-VL: Small Multimodal Search Agents via Trajectory Distillation and Synthetic Step-DPO
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arXiv:2608.29357v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal search agents answer visual questions by interleaving image understanding, web retrieval, tool use, and evidence synthesis. Strong systems exist, but in two expensive regimes: proprietary frontier models such as GPT-5 and Gemini, or large op
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