FaithEyes: Towards Faithful Tool Use via Multi-Agent Process-Image Verification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28225v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:58:08 GMT
• Title: FaithEyes: Towards Faithful Tool Use via Multi-Agent Process-Image Verification
• Abstract summary: Recent studies have revealed that agentic vision-language models often use tools unfaithfully.<n>We introduce FaithEyes, a multi-agent self-judging framework.<n>FaithEyes attains competitive or superior accuracy across visual perception and reasoning benchmarks.
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• Abstract: Agentic vision-language models (VLMs), which interleave textual reasoning with explicit tool calls such as cropping and code-based image manipulation, have emerged as a compelling paradigm for reliable and interpretable multimodal reasoning. However, recent studies have revealed that such models often use tools unfaithfully. Many process images are irrelevant to the question (e.g., the tool crops the wrong region or misses the queried target), yet the call still receives full credit and the model still answers correctly. Such decorative or misaligned tool calls waste computation and reveal that the model leans on prior knowledge or the original image rather than the evidence it retrieves. This may stem from two limitations of prevailing methods: the tool reward fails to distinguish useful from useless calls, and tool feedback carries no signal of usefulness. To this end, we introduce FaithEyes, a multi-agent self-judging framework. Concretely, we use a VLM to judge whether each process image helps answer the question. The judgement is injected into the reasoning context as part of the tool observation to help subsequent reasoning, and meanwhile is used to scale the tool reward by the helpful-tool ratio to suppress reward hacking. To keep judgement available at evaluation and thus ensure train-test consistency, we further design a multi-agent framework where the model itself serves as a subagent to judge the tool calls from main agent, eliminating any dependence on an external model at inference. Training via a two-stage SFT + RL pipeline on adapted open-source data, FaithEyes attains competitive or superior accuracy across visual perception and reasoning benchmarks, while markedly improving tool faithfulness. The homepage is at https://github.com/Mosi-AI/FaithEyes.

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