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WebSeer: Training Deeper Search Agents through Reinforcement Learning with Self-Reflection

Computation and Language 2025-10-22 v1

Abstract

Search agents have achieved significant advancements in enabling intelligent information retrieval and decision-making within interactive environments. Although reinforcement learning has been employed to train agentic models capable of more dynamic interactive retrieval, existing methods are limited by shallow tool-use depth and the accumulation of errors over multiple iterative interactions. In this paper, we present WebSeer, a more intelligent search agent trained via reinforcement learning enhanced with a self-reflection mechanism. Specifically, we construct a large dataset annotated with reflection patterns and design a two-stage training framework that unifies cold start and reinforcement learning within the self-reflection paradigm for real-world web-based environments, which enables the model to generate longer and more reflective tool-use trajectories. Our approach substantially extends tool-use chains and improves answer accuracy. Using a single 14B model, we achieve state-of-the-art results on HotpotQA and SimpleQA, with accuracies of 72.3% and 90.0%, respectively, and demonstrate strong generalization to out-of-distribution datasets. The code is available at https://github.com/99hgz/WebSeer

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@article{arxiv.2510.18798,
  title  = {WebSeer: Training Deeper Search Agents through Reinforcement Learning with Self-Reflection},
  author = {Guanzhong He and Zhen Yang and Jinxin Liu and Bin Xu and Lei Hou and Juanzi Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18798},
  year   = {2025}
}
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