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OneSearch-VL: Unified Multimodal Deep Research Agent for Image and Video

Abstract

Single-image, multi-image, and video deep research require different visual operations but share a workflow of visual grounding, external retrieval, and fact composition. A key challenge is to preserve the dependencies linking localized visual anchors, entity relations, source-supported facts, and answer-producing operations. We introduce OneSearch-VL, a unified agent centered on the Visually Grounded Evidence Graph (VGEG), which encodes these dependencies as a shared task-level reference for data construction, process supervision, and operation-level evaluation. Our VGEG-based data engine constructs and verifies multi-image and video questions and filters expert trajectories. Using these data, We assemble OneSearch-VL-SFT-110K and OneSearch-VL-RL-10K for SFT and RL, respectively. We further derive the Evidence-aware Visual-Grounded Rubric reward (EVGR) from VGEG annotations to supervise evidence traceability and visual grounding during RL. For finegrained evaluation, we construct OneSearch-MI-Bench and OneSearch-Video-Bench, organizing questions by the research operations encoded in their VGEGs. Experiments show that OneSearch-VL-8B improves over Qwen3-VL-8B with tool access by 20.2 and 17.6 percentage points on the two new benchmarks, respectively, while also achieving substantial gains across 7 image benchmarks and VideoDR.

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