MC-Search: Evaluating and Enhancing Multimodal Agentic Search with Structured Long Reasoning Chains

TL;DR

With the increasing demand for step-wise, cross-modal, and knowledge-grounded reasoning, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are evolving beyond the traditional fixed retrieve-then-generate paradigm toward more sophisticated agentic multimodal retrieval-augmented generation (MM-RAG). Existing benchmarks, however, mainly focus on simplified...

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