Diversity Over Frequency: Rethinking Tool Use in Visual Chain-of-Thought Agents

Official repository for the paper "Diversity Over Frequency: Rethinking Tool Use in Visual Chain-of-Thought Agents", accepted at ICML 2026.

📄 Project Page: https://scaffolded-exploration.github.io

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The repository is currently undergoing cleanup and organization. We are working on releasing the full codebase, including model checkpoints, prompts, and evaluation codes.

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Citation

@inproceedings{kim2026diversity,
  title={Diversity Over Frequency: Rethinking Tool Use in Visual Chain-of-Thought Agents},
  author={Kim, Dong-Hee and Tan, Reuben and Kim, Donghyun},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year={2026},
  address={Seoul, South Korea},
  publisher={PMLR},
  url={https://scaffolded-exploration.github.io/}
}