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Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains

As of 15 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 16 of 16 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2606.02357.

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Observation 5131f710-9667-42a7-8666-a27d01e7ad09 · outbound

This paper cites MM-Eureka: Exploring the Frontiers of Multimodal Reasoning with Rule-based Reinforcement Learning.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains MM-Eureka: Exploring the Frontiers of Multimodal Reasoning with Rule-based Reinforcement Learning

Reference 1

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Observation 2ed08255-8a29-4fba-a0bb-70f5565e462e · outbound

This paper cites LogicVista: Multimodal LLM Logical Reasoning Benchmark in Visual Contexts.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains LogicVista: Multimodal LLM Logical Reasoning Benchmark in Visual Contexts

Reference 2

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Observation a895af7a-a0ae-486d-9859-c59779088266 · outbound

This paper cites InThe Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representa- tions.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains InThe Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representa- tions

Reference 3

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Observation 459213c6-a207-45ed-ac64-71b1d98335ff · outbound

This paper cites ,→ ,→ - Confirmatory: the tool mainly confirms or repeats an already available conclusion.,→ - Irrelevant: the tool output is not materially useful for solving the task.,→.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains ,→ ,→ - Confirmatory: the tool mainly confirms or repeats an already available conclusion.,→ - Irrelevant: the tool output is not materially useful for solving the task.,→

Reference 4

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Observation e64ef062-96e8-4f53-b69f-aef4f9e2e871 · outbound

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Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains Unresolved cited work

Reference 5

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Observation 92331ff3-c6d4-4965-aa39-b50def4927af · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains Unresolved cited work

Reference 6

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Observation 37994a2d-deb2-461a-9853-f4756ba8c652 · outbound

This paper cites Only assign Novel if the tool output clearly reveals or computes information ,→ ,→ that was not already available from the pre-tool reasoning.,→.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains Only assign Novel if the tool output clearly reveals or computes information ,→ ,→ that was not already available from the pre-tool reasoning.,→

Reference 7

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Observation 0a28531d-77b0-4389-8e9f-78b2f5a3e388 · outbound

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Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains Unresolved cited work

Reference 8

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Observation e01a50c1-2545-4734-af3d-d8b8abd1bb03 · outbound

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Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains Unresolved cited work

Reference 9

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Observation 9028a81a-915e-4f12-97ea-d91f84e1e4ca · outbound

This paper cites A correct final answer can still correspond to ,→ ,→ Confirmatory, Partially useful, or even Irrelevant tool use.,→.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains A correct final answer can still correspond to ,→ ,→ Confirmatory, Partially useful, or even Irrelevant tool use.,→

Reference 10

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Observation ae62c95c-f44e-4afe-a608-b549873a4599 · outbound

This paper cites If it adds ,→ ,→ little or no new evidence, prefer Partially useful or Wrong/Failed as appropriate.,→.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains If it adds ,→ ,→ little or no new evidence, prefer Partially useful or Wrong/Failed as appropriate.,→

Reference 11

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Observation 5b47c18e-4737-401e-ae14-cb7e799f20c6 · outbound

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Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains Unresolved cited work

Reference 12

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Observation e7e70fdb-2bf5-45dc-bcd4-1e042fb95c74 · outbound

This paper cites It is NOT a valid value for tool_output_quality or ,→ ,→ integration_status.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains It is NOT a valid value for tool_output_quality or ,→ ,→ integration_status

Reference 13

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Observation 51c9acaa-ebcf-4dfa-b09b-98042975a006 · outbound

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Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains Unresolved cited work

Reference 14

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Observation 8e55814a-15d8-4505-8c5c-8dd95f8f9138 · outbound

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Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains Unresolved cited work

Reference 15

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Observation 7981320b-acda-429d-b632-4665aa6eec95 · outbound

This paper cites information_gain.

Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains information_gain

Reference 16

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Pith citing papers

Observation a9602b30-09bb-41bf-a683-ec629425ae12 · inbound

See2Think: Do Multimodal Models Really Use Intermediate Visual States? cites this paper.

See2Think: Do Multimodal Models Really Use Intermediate Visual States? Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains

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Observation 63ebea04-eff5-4754-93fe-408827e5e25a · inbound

Beacon: Knowing When and How to Perform Agentic Visual Reasoning cites this paper.

Beacon: Knowing When and How to Perform Agentic Visual Reasoning Do Multimodal Agents Really Benefit from Tool Use? A Systematic Study of Capability Gains

Reference 8

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