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VibeSearchBench: Benchmarking Long-horizon Proactive Search in the Wild

Computation and Language 2026-05-28 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

LLM-based agents score well on search benchmarks, yet real users consistently find results unsatisfying, revealing a persistent evaluation-experience gap. We attribute this gap to existing benchmarks' reliance on over-specified queries, single-turn interactions, and fixed-schema evaluation, none of which reflect real search behavior where users and agents collaboratively refine vague intent through multi-turn dialogue. We term this paradigm VibeSearch and introduce VibeSearchBench, a benchmark comprising 200 manually curated bilingual (Chinese and English) tasks across 20 domains, split into VibeSearch-Pro (professional) and VibeSearch-Daily (daily-life) subsets. Each task pairs a user persona with a schema-free ground-truth knowledge graph, and is evaluated through a progressive-disclosure user simulator and a graph-matching evaluation framework. We benchmark seven frontier models under both the ReAct framework and the OpenClaw agent harness. Results show that all models remain substantially inadequate for VibeSearch (best F1: 30.30), highlighting the need for fundamental advances in long-context reasoning, proactive intent elicitation, and structured knowledge construction.

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@article{arxiv.2605.27882,
  title  = {VibeSearchBench: Benchmarking Long-horizon Proactive Search in the Wild},
  author = {Xiaohongshu Inc},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.27882},
  year   = {2026}
}