Findings of the MAGMaR 2026 Shared Task
This shared task provides a benchmark for multimodal retrieval and generation, but results are incremental as they only compare to a prior baseline.
The MAGMaR 2026 shared task evaluated systems on video retrieval and grounded generation. All 17 retrieval systems beat the previous year's baseline, and all 4 generation teams had at least one top-rated report.
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 year's 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.