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MuSEAgent: A Multimodal Reasoning Agent with Stateful Experiences

arXiv 2603.27813 ↗First posted 29 Mar 2026cs.CVcited by 3

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Abstract (arXiv)

Research agents have recently achieved significant progress in information seeking and synthesis across heterogeneous textual and visual sources. In this paper, we introduce MuSEAgent, a multimodal reasoning agent that enhances decision-making by extending the capabilities of research agents to discover and leverage stateful experiences. Rather than relying on trajectory-level retrieval, we propose a stateful experience learning paradigm that abstracts interaction data into atomic decision experiences through hindsight reasoning. These experiences are organized into a quality-filtered experience bank that supports policy-driven experience retrieval at inference time. Specifically, MuSEAgent enables adaptive experience exploitation through complementary wide- and deep-search strategies, allowing the agent to dynamically retrieve multimodal guidance across diverse compositional semantic viewpoints. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MuSEAgent consistently outperforms strong trajectory-level experience retrieval baselines on both fine-grained visual perception and complex multimodal reasoning tasks. These results validate the effectiveness of stateful experience modeling in improving multimodal agent reasoning.

Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 35 of its 38 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 29 Mar 2026.

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35 of 38 references.

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  1. 2025LlamaV-o1: Rethinking Step-by-step Visual Reasoning in LLMs10 Jan
  2. 2024Insight-V: Exploring Long-Chain Visual Reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models21 Nov
  3. 2024LLaVA-CoT: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step15 Nov
  4. 2023MM-REACT: Prompting ChatGPT for Multimodal Reasoning and Action20 Mar
  5. 2023ViperGPT: Visual Inference via Python Execution for Reasoning14 Mar
  6. 2022Visual Programming: Compositional visual reasoning without training18 Nov

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