DART: Leveraging Multi-Agent Disagreement for Tool Recruitment in Multimodal Reasoning (2026.eacl-long)
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Nithin Sivakumaran, Justin Chen, David Wan, Yue Zhang, Jaehong Yoon, Elias Stengel-Eskin, Mohit Bansal
| Challenge: | a key strength of human intelligence is the ability to debate and discuss reasoning with others. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-agent framework that uses disagreements between visual agents to identify useful visual tools that can resolve inter-agency disagreement. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework beats the strongest baseline on A-OKVQA and MMMU, respectively. |
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