@article{securingthefloorandraisingtheceilingamer,
  title = {Securing the Floor and Raising the Ceiling: A Merging-based Paradigm for Multi-modal Search Agents},
  author = {Zhixiang Wang and Jingxuan Xu and Dajun Chen and Yunfang Wu and Wei Jiang and Yong Li},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2603.01416},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.01416},
}