OpenVLHarness: training-free harness adds web search and Python tools to multimodal models
_akhaliq · x · 2026-10-20
The paper OpenVLHarness: Real World Visual Agentic Tool-Use with Multimodal Memory (arXiv 2610.26860) introduces a training-free harness that lets multimodal models combine perception, web search and Python computation for real-world visual agentic tasks.
- No fine-tuning needed: extends existing multimodal models with tool use
- Multimodal memory keeps every piece of tool evidence readable and reusable across reasoning steps
- Targets real-world visual tool-use scenarios
Related event: UCLA and Apple Release OpenVLHarness for Visual Agents(2 posts)→
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