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

arXiv 2607.05943 ↗First posted 7 Jul 2026cs.AIcited by 5

On the map: LLM reasoning → Knowledge- and tool-augmented reasoning

Abstract (arXiv)

Training multimodal search agents to perform multi-hop reasoning remains challenging due to a fundamental structural disconnect: existing pipelines construct training data, search environments, and reward signals independently, causing synthesized structural metadata to be discarded, environments to rely on irreproducible external engines, and RL rewards to remain sparse at the trajectory level. We present SearchEyes, which uses a typed knowledge graph as the backbone of a simulated search world that unifies all three components. We propose Perception-Knowledge Chains (PKC) to sample constrained multi-hop paths over the visual-knowledge intersection of Wikidata5M, retaining hop-level entity metadata that simultaneously defines a self-contained search world and step-level reward anchors. We further propose Hop-Anchored Policy Optimization (HaPO), which reuses these anchors for step-level credit assignment without a separately trained process reward model. Experiments on six multimodal knowledge-intensive benchmarks show that SearchEyes achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source multimodal search agents, with SearchEyes-27B improving over the strongest open-source baseline by 6.2 points on average.%

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Knowledge- and tool-augmented reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 40 of its 54 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 Jul 2026.

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40 of 54 references.

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  2. 2025Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning12 Mar
  3. 2025Search-o1: Agentic Search-Enhanced Large Reasoning Models9 Jan

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