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New visual agent learns tool use from unlabeled images via margin reward

Researchers have introduced Marvo, a novel self-evolving visual agent designed to learn tool invocation from unlabeled images. Marvo employs a challenger agent to generate questions from images and a solver agent that learns tool usage through reinforcement learning. By incorporating a margin reward, the system adaptively scales question complexity without human supervision, leading to significant accuracy improvements of up to 7.1% across various reasoning benchmarks. AI

IMPACT This approach could reduce the cost of training visual agents by eliminating the need for curated question-answer pairs.

RANK_REASON Research paper detailing a new AI agent and methodology. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New visual agent learns tool use from unlabeled images via margin reward

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 (AF) · Wenxi Yang, Yuzhong Zhao, Baochang Zhang, Yunfan Liu, Qixiang Ye ·

    Self-Evolving Visual Agent via Margin Reward

    arXiv:2610.15084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Visual agents that interleave reasoning with tool invocation have posed a promising direction for multimodal tasks. However, learning effective tool invocation usually relies on curated question-answer pairs or expert demonstrations…