OpenSearch-VL: An Open Recipe for Frontier Multimodal Search Agents

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Main Authors: Chen, Shuang, Feng, Kaituo, Chen, Hangting, Huang, Wenxuan, Dai, Dasen, Shou, Quanxin, Lin, Yunlong, Yue, Xiangyu, Gao, Shenghua, Pang, Tianyu
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author Chen, Shuang
Feng, Kaituo
Chen, Hangting
Huang, Wenxuan
Dai, Dasen
Shou, Quanxin
Lin, Yunlong
Yue, Xiangyu
Gao, Shenghua
Pang, Tianyu
author_facet Chen, Shuang
Feng, Kaituo
Chen, Hangting
Huang, Wenxuan
Dai, Dasen
Shou, Quanxin
Lin, Yunlong
Yue, Xiangyu
Gao, Shenghua
Pang, Tianyu
contents Deep search has become a crucial capability for frontier multimodal agents, enabling models to solve complex questions through active search, evidence verification, and multi-step reasoning. Despite rapid progress, top-tier multimodal search agents remain difficult to reproduce, largely due to the absence of open high-quality training data, transparent trajectory synthesis pipelines, or detailed training recipes. To this end, we introduce OpenSearch-VL, a fully open-source recipe for training frontier multimodal deep search agents with agentic reinforcement learning. First, we curated a dedicated pipeline to construct high-quality training data through Wikipedia path sampling, fuzzy entity rewriting, and source-anchor visual grounding, which jointly reduce shortcuts and one-step retrieval collapse. Based on this pipeline, we curate two training datasets, SearchVL-SFT-36k for SFT and SearchVL-RL-8k for RL. Besides, we design a diverse tool environment that unifies text search, image search, OCR, cropping, sharpening, super-resolution, and perspective correction, enabling agents to combine active perception with external knowledge acquisition. Finally, we propose a multi-turn fatal-aware GRPO training algorithm that handles cascading tool failures by masking post-failure tokens while preserving useful pre-failure reasoning through one-sided advantage clamping. Built on this recipe, OpenSearch-VL delivers substantial performance gains, with over 10-point average improvements across seven benchmarks, and achieves results comparable to proprietary commercial models on several tasks. We will release all data, code, and models to support open research on multimodal deep search agents.
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spellingShingle OpenSearch-VL: An Open Recipe for Frontier Multimodal Search Agents
Chen, Shuang
Feng, Kaituo
Chen, Hangting
Huang, Wenxuan
Dai, Dasen
Shou, Quanxin
Lin, Yunlong
Yue, Xiangyu
Gao, Shenghua
Pang, Tianyu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Deep search has become a crucial capability for frontier multimodal agents, enabling models to solve complex questions through active search, evidence verification, and multi-step reasoning. Despite rapid progress, top-tier multimodal search agents remain difficult to reproduce, largely due to the absence of open high-quality training data, transparent trajectory synthesis pipelines, or detailed training recipes. To this end, we introduce OpenSearch-VL, a fully open-source recipe for training frontier multimodal deep search agents with agentic reinforcement learning. First, we curated a dedicated pipeline to construct high-quality training data through Wikipedia path sampling, fuzzy entity rewriting, and source-anchor visual grounding, which jointly reduce shortcuts and one-step retrieval collapse. Based on this pipeline, we curate two training datasets, SearchVL-SFT-36k for SFT and SearchVL-RL-8k for RL. Besides, we design a diverse tool environment that unifies text search, image search, OCR, cropping, sharpening, super-resolution, and perspective correction, enabling agents to combine active perception with external knowledge acquisition. Finally, we propose a multi-turn fatal-aware GRPO training algorithm that handles cascading tool failures by masking post-failure tokens while preserving useful pre-failure reasoning through one-sided advantage clamping. Built on this recipe, OpenSearch-VL delivers substantial performance gains, with over 10-point average improvements across seven benchmarks, and achieves results comparable to proprietary commercial models on several tasks. We will release all data, code, and models to support open research on multimodal deep search agents.
title OpenSearch-VL: An Open Recipe for Frontier Multimodal Search Agents
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.05185