@inproceedings{wang-etal-2026-securing,
    title = "Securing the Floor and Raising the Ceiling: A Merging-based Paradigm for Multi-modal Search Agents",
    author = "Wang, Zhixiang  and
      Xu, Jingxuan  and
      Chen, Dajun  and
      Wu, Yunfang  and
      Jiang, Wei  and
      Li, Yong",
    editor = "Kamalloo, Ehsan  and
      Gontier, Nicolas  and
      Rozanov, Nikolai  and
      Hashemzadeh, Maryam  and
      Arora, Akhil",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop for {RE}search on Agent Language Models ({REALM} 2026)",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.realm-1.101/",
    pages = "1471--1481",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-485-9"
}