{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Paper Cast","slug":"daily-paper-cast-7079649","podcast_index_feed_id":7079649,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/daily-paper-cast-ai","website_url":"https://dailypapercast.transistor.fm/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IxaBeiMluxrMS9W9wB8hFMfmvH27KvwaSMzuhucupn0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjg1/YzRhODczMDU4MmE4/OGMwN2FiNDlmYzI2/MDliMi5qcGVn.jpg","author":"Jingwen Liang, Gengyu Wang","episode_count":2000,"summary":"We update every weekday to discuss highest-voted papers from Huggingface Daily Paper (https://huggingface.co/papers). Both the podcast scripts and audio are generated by AI. Feedback and suggestions are welcome! Email us: dailypapercast.ai@gmail.com Creator: Jingwen Liang, 3D ML, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jingwen-liang/ Gengyu Wang, LLM ML, http://wanggengyu.com Listen on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/21nrhmdaA8qoBiH8q03NXL Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-paper-cast/id1777620236 Cover Image by Kawen Kuang https://kawen.art","last_synced_at":"2026-09-09T20:18:08.781137+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649"},"episode":{"title":"Beacon: Knowing When and How to Perform Agentic Visual Reasoning","slug":"beacon-knowing-when-and-how-to-perform-agentic-visual-reasoning","published_at":"2026-08-01T03:53:05+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649/beacon-knowing-when-and-how-to-perform-agentic-visual-reasoning","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/11578e60","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/11578e60/cfdb1769.mp3","summary":"🤗 Upvotes: 45 | cs.CV Authors: Qixun Wang, Yang Shi, Letian Cheng, Zhuoran Zhang, Yan He, Yuqi Tang, Qi Zhang, Xinlei Yu, Ruizhe Chen, Tianrun Xu, Yuanxing Zhang, Pengfei Wan, Haotian Wang, Xianghua Ying Title: Beacon: Knowing When and How to Perform Agentic Visual Reasoning Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28595v1 Abstract: The fundamental goal of agentic visual reasoning is to improve the success rate of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on complex tasks, rather than merely equipping them with a sophisticated yet inefficient reasoning paradigm. In this work, we rethink agentic visual reasoning through two key dimensions of tool use: Mode Adaptiveness (MA) and Tool Effect (TE). Mode Adaptiveness characterizes whether an MLLM can recognize when tools are truly necessary and invoke them accordingly, thereby avoiding unnecessary computational overhead while improving performance on challenging problems that require tool assistance. Tool Effect characterizes the actual impact of tool use: tools should extend the model's capabilities on problems unsolvable through text-only reasoning, while avoiding additional errors on problems that the model can already solve without tools. We conduct a comprehensive analysis to quantify these two properties and empirically reveal that existing agentic visual reasoning models exhibit limited Mode Adaptiveness, while the gains produced by tool use on hard examples are largely offset by the harm introduced on easy examples that the models can already solve. Motivated by these observations, we propose Beacon, a novel agentic visual reasoning model that achieves stronger overall performance, improved Mode Adaptiveness, and genuine tool-induced performance gains. At the core of Beacon are the Necessity-Aware Adaptive Reward and the Hin…","meta_description":"🤗 Upvotes: 45 | cs.CV Authors: Qixun Wang, Yang Shi, Letian Cheng, Zhuoran Zhang, Yan He, Yuqi Tang, Qi Zhang, Xinlei Yu, Ruizhe Chen, Tianrun Xu, Yuanxin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1218,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-paper-cast-7079649/episodes/beacon-knowing-when-and-how-to-perform-agentic-visual-reasoning/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649/beacon-knowing-when-and-how-to-perform-agentic-visual-reasoning.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}