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Edition No. 24
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Top stories

  1. 1. OpenVLHarness: Real World Visual Agentic Tool-Use with Multimodal Memory

    Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress on visual reasoning, yet many tasks require evidence that is difficult to obtain through internal reasoning alone: our controlled study on 22 benchmarks…

    Verdict: Notable██████░░░░5.8
  2. 2. SolarRenderer: Few-Step Generative Reference Rendering

    Game engines and coding agents can specify the layout, motion, and camera of a scene, yet turning such coarse structure into realistic video requires a renderer that follows the structure and completes the appearance…

    Verdict: Notable██████░░░░5.7

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No.03 to No.08

  1. arXivby Huang, Xu, Luo +16

    Epi: Towards a Persistent, Self-Improving Agent for Autonomous Research

    We present Épi, an autonomous research agent that sustains investigations across model sessions and evolves its methods through accumulated experience. Épi combines persistent research ....

    No.04Verdict: NotableScore████░░░░░░4.5
  2. arXivby Liu, Zhang, Xiao

    Multimodal Reranking Is a System One Decision

    Multimodal rerankers are usually dedicated models: a vision-language model (VLM) is trained on retrieval data to score the candidates of a query.

    No.06Verdict: NotableScore████░░░░░░4.3
  3. arXivby Bai, Song, Hao +5

    Harness Scaling for Generalizable Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Agent harnesses have become a central component of modern agentic systems, shaping how models use tools, manage context, and coordinate long-horizon interaction.

    No.07Verdict: NotableScore████░░░░░░4.2

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