Optical reasoning encodes rationales in images rather than text, matching or exceeding text-based performance on math, science, and multimodal benchmarks while cutting tokens by 28.57% on language tasks and 16% on multimodal tasks.
Agentocr: Reimagining agent history via optical self-compression
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SkillDAG builds a self-evolving typed skill graph that LLM agents query and update at inference time, raising success on ALFWorld and SkillsBench by 12.8 and 8.6 points over graph baselines.
Framing visual text compression as measure transport decomposes encoding loss into precision and coverage costs, enabling a label-free routing rule that matches oracle performance on 17 of 24 NLP datasets while using 10% fewer tokens.
AGAR uses middle-to-late layer attention in VLMs to identify and enlarge important word spans in rendered text images, improving performance on visual text comprehension benchmarks.
VTI-CoT proposes a visual-textual interleaved chain-of-thought method for video reasoning, built via automated annotation and OCR compression, claiming SOTA performance and better training efficiency on same-scale models.
Maestro uses outcome-based RL to train a lightweight policy that orchestrates ensembles of frozen expert models and skills, reporting 70.1% average accuracy across ten multimodal benchmarks and outperforming GPT-5 and Gemini-2.5-Pro while generalizing to unseen components.
ScrapMem reports SOTA 51.0% Joint@10 on ATM-Bench with up to 93% memory reduction and 70.3% Recall@10 via optical forgetting and EM-Graph.
An 8B multimodal search model trained with Agentic Seeding and V-Fold visual-history compression reaches state-of-the-art scores on six web-search VQA benchmarks.
Continuous latent-vector compression improves BLEU scores on repository-level code tasks by up to 28.3% at 4x compression while cutting inference latency.
LensVLM trains VLMs to scan compressed rendered text images and selectively expand task-relevant regions, achieving 4.3x compression with near full-text accuracy and outperforming baselines up to 10.1x on text QA benchmarks.
Sema reduces uplink bandwidth by 64x for audio and 130-210x for screenshots while keeping multimodal agent task accuracy within 0.7 percentage points of raw baselines in WAN simulations.
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Optical Reasoning: Rethinking Images as an Expressive Reasoning Medium Beyond Text
Optical reasoning encodes rationales in images rather than text, matching or exceeding text-based performance on math, science, and multimodal benchmarks while cutting tokens by 28.57% on language tasks and 16% on multimodal tasks.
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SkillDAG: Self-Evolving Typed Skill Graphs for LLM Skill Selection at Scale
SkillDAG builds a self-evolving typed skill graph that LLM agents query and update at inference time, raising success on ALFWorld and SkillsBench by 12.8 and 8.6 points over graph baselines.
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Visual Text Compression as Measure Transport
Framing visual text compression as measure transport decomposes encoding loss into precision and coverage costs, enabling a label-free routing rule that matches oracle performance on 17 of 24 NLP datasets while using 10% fewer tokens.
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Magnifying What Matters: Attention-Guided Adaptive Rendering for Visual Text Comprehension
AGAR uses middle-to-late layer attention in VLMs to identify and enlarge important word spans in rendered text images, improving performance on visual text comprehension benchmarks.
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VTI-CoT: Visual-Textual Interleaved Chain of Thought for Video Reasoning
VTI-CoT proposes a visual-textual interleaved chain-of-thought method for video reasoning, built via automated annotation and OCR compression, claiming SOTA performance and better training efficiency on same-scale models.
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Maestro: Reinforcement Learning to Orchestrate Hierarchical Model-Skill Ensembles
Maestro uses outcome-based RL to train a lightweight policy that orchestrates ensembles of frozen expert models and skills, reporting 70.1% average accuracy across ten multimodal benchmarks and outperforming GPT-5 and Gemini-2.5-Pro while generalizing to unseen components.
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ScrapMem: A Bio-inspired Framework for On-device Personalized Agent Memory via Optical Forgetting
ScrapMem reports SOTA 51.0% Joint@10 on ATM-Bench with up to 93% memory reduction and 70.3% Recall@10 via optical forgetting and EM-Graph.
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POINTS-Seeker: An Open Recipe for Multimodal Search Agents with Visual Memory Management
An 8B multimodal search model trained with Agentic Seeding and V-Fold visual-history compression reaches state-of-the-art scores on six web-search VQA benchmarks.
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On the Effectiveness of Context Compression for Repository-Level Tasks: An Empirical Investigation
Continuous latent-vector compression improves BLEU scores on repository-level code tasks by up to 28.3% at 4x compression while cutting inference latency.
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LensVLM: Selective Context Expansion for Compressed Visual Representation of Text
LensVLM trains VLMs to scan compressed rendered text images and selectively expand task-relevant regions, achieving 4.3x compression with near full-text accuracy and outperforming baselines up to 10.1x on text QA benchmarks.
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Sema: Semantic Transport for Real-Time Multimodal Agents
Sema reduces uplink bandwidth by 64x for audio and 130-210x for screenshots while keeping multimodal agent task accuracy within 0.7 percentage points of raw baselines in WAN simulations.