Selective Visual Grounding for Multimodal Executive Decision Agents

Abstract

Multimodal Executive Agents is being reorganized around the joint demands of performance with evidence quality, resource limits, and transfer across settings. This article critically maps deciding when visual evidence helps, distracts, or overloads constrained executive choices. The corpus joins 1 focal paper with 12 independently retrieved publications verified through persistent DOI or publisher records. The analysis is organized around visual grounding, constraint satisfaction, confidence gating, signal crowding, and human oversight. Instead of assuming that reported outcomes as directly interchangeable, the review compares problem boundaries, design logic, and conditions of validation. Across the literature, the comparison suggests that advances in multimodal executive agents become credible when representation, objective, and evaluation protocol are evaluated together and when uncertainty about distribution shift is reported explicitly. The resulting framework links method selection to decision risk and exposes recurring transfer threats, and proposes a research agenda centered on explicit comparators, boundary tests, and reproducible artifacts.