Dengjia Zhang
2026
Findings of the MAGMaR 2026 Shared Task
Alexander Martin | Dengjia Zhang | Joel Brogan | Francis Ferraro | Jeremy Gwinnup | Reno Kriz | Teng Long | Kenton Murray | Andrew Yates | Xiang Xiang
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2026)
Alexander Martin | Dengjia Zhang | Joel Brogan | Francis Ferraro | Jeremy Gwinnup | Reno Kriz | Teng Long | Kenton Murray | Andrew Yates | Xiang Xiang
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2026)
This overview paper presents the results of the shared task for the second workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR). In this shared task participants submitted systems focused on either (i) video retrieval or (ii) grounded generation of articles given retrieved videos. Teams could submit to either task. For the retrieval task, we had 2 participating teams that submitted a total of 17 systems – all of which beat a baseline derived from the winner of last years shared task. On the generation side, we had 4 teams submit 16 systems. All teams had at least one generated report that was labeled the best by a human annotator.
MARQUIS: A Three-Stage Pipeline for Video Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Debashish Chakraborty | Dengjia Zhang | Jialiang Jin | Katherine M. Guerrerio | Hanting Liu | Hanxiang Qin | Tyler Skow | Alexander Martin | Reno Kriz | Benjamin Van Durme
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2026)
Debashish Chakraborty | Dengjia Zhang | Jialiang Jin | Katherine M. Guerrerio | Hanting Liu | Hanxiang Qin | Tyler Skow | Alexander Martin | Reno Kriz | Benjamin Van Durme
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Multimodal Augmented Generation via Multimodal Retrieval (MAGMaR 2026)
Retrieval-augmented generation from videos requires systems to retrieve relevant audiovisual evidence from large corpora and synthesize it into coherent, attributed text. Current approaches struggle at both ends: retrieval methods fail on complex, multi-faceted queries that cannot be captured by a single embedding, while generation methods lack the high-level reasoning needed to synthesize across multiple videos and face memory constraints over long, multi-video contexts. We present MARQUIS: a three-stage pipeline that addresses these limitations through (1) query expansion, fusion, and reranking, (2) calibrated structured evidence extraction, and (3) article generation from extracted evidence, optionally controlled by an RLM. On the MAGMaR2026 shared task, we improve retrieval performance from 0.195 to 0.759 (nDCG@10). For article generation, ITER-QA-BASE improves average human score from 3.09 to 3.83 over the CAG baseline, while MARQUIS-RLM achieves a human score of 3.30 and the strongest citation recall among non-QA systems.