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Large Language Model (LLM) agents can leverage multiple turns and tools to solve complex tasks, with prompt-based approaches achieving strong performance. This work demonstrates that Reinforcement Learning (RL) can push capabilities…

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Despite the rapid progress, LLMs for sequential decision-making (i.e., LLM agents) still struggle to produce diverse outputs. This leads to insufficient exploration, convergence to sub-optimal solutions, and becoming stuck in loops. Such…

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Language agents based on large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated great promise in automating web-based tasks. Recent work has shown that incorporating advanced planning algorithms, e.g., tree search, is advantageous over reactive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yu Gu , Kai Zhang , Yuting Ning , Boyuan Zheng , Boyu Gou , Tianci Xue , Cheng Chang , Sanjari Srivastava , Yanan Xie , Peng Qi , Huan Sun , Yu Su

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely integrated into information retrieval to advance traditional techniques. However, effectively enabling LLMs to seek accurate knowledge in complex tasks remains a challenge due to the complexity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhengliang Shi , Lingyong Yan , Dawei Yin , Suzan Verberne , Maarten de Rijke , Zhaochun Ren

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable potential as autonomous agents, particularly in web-based tasks. However, existing LLM web agents heavily rely on expensive proprietary LLM APIs, while open LLMs lack the necessary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Zehan Qi , Xiao Liu , Iat Long Iong , Hanyu Lai , Xueqiao Sun , Wenyi Zhao , Yu Yang , Xinyue Yang , Jiadai Sun , Shuntian Yao , Tianjie Zhang , Wei Xu , Jie Tang , Yuxiao Dong

Powered by a large language model (LLM), a web browsing agent operates web browsers in a human-like manner and offers a highly transparent path toward automating a wide range of everyday tasks. As web agents become increasingly capable and…

Tool-integrated reasoning has emerged as a key focus for enabling agentic applications. Among these, DeepResearch Agents have gained significant attention for their strong performance on complex, open-ended information-seeking tasks. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shreyas Singh , Kunal Singh , Pradeep Moturi

Reasoning-augmented search agents, such as Search-R1, are trained to reason, search, and generate the final answer iteratively. Nevertheless, due to their limited capabilities in reasoning and search, their performance on multi-hop QA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shu Zhao , Tan Yu , Anbang Xu

Search agents, which integrate language models (LMs) with web search, are becoming crucial for answering complex user queries. Constructing training datasets for deep research tasks, involving multi-step retrieval and reasoning, remains…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Nandan Thakur , Zijian Chen , Xueguang Ma , Jimmy Lin

Large Language Models (LLMs), despite their advancements, are fundamentally limited by their static parametric knowledge, hindering performance on tasks requiring open-domain up-to-date information. While enabling LLMs to interact with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jianbiao Mei , Tao Hu , Daocheng Fu , Licheng Wen , Xuemeng Yang , Rong Wu , Pinlong Cai , Xinyu Cai , Xing Gao , Yu Yang , Chengjun Xie , Botian Shi , Yong Liu , Yu Qiao

Recent developments in Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have shown impressive capabilities spanning multiple domains, exemplified by deep research systems that demonstrate superior performance on complex information-seeking and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ailing Yu , Lan Yao , Jingnan Liu , Zhe Chen , Jiajun Yin , Yuan Wang , Xinhao Liao , Zhiling Ye , Ji Li , Yun Yue , Hansong Xiao , Hualei Zhou , Chunxiao Guo , Peng Wei , Junwei Liu , Jinjie Gu

An ideal embodied agent should possess lifelong learning capabilities to handle long-horizon and complex tasks, enabling continuous operation in general environments. This not only requires the agent to accurately accomplish given tasks but…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Sen Wang , Bangwei Liu , Zhenkun Gao , Lizhuang Ma , Xuhong Wang , Yuan Xie , Xin Tan

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have largely focused on depth scaling, where a single agent solves long-horizon problems with multi-turn reasoning and tool use. However, as tasks grow broader, the key bottleneck shifts…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Zelai Xu , Zhexuan Xu , Ruize Zhang , Chunyang Zhu , Shi Yu , Weilin Liu , Quanlu Zhang , Wenbo Ding , Chao Yu , Yu Wang

Transcending human cognitive limitations represents a critical frontier in LLM training. Proprietary agentic systems like DeepResearch have demonstrated superhuman capabilities on extremely complex information-seeking benchmarks such as…

Autonomous data science, from raw data sources to analyst-grade deep research reports, has been a long-standing challenge, and is now becoming feasible with the emergence of powerful large language models (LLMs). Recent workflow-based data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shaolei Zhang , Ju Fan , Meihao Fan , Guoliang Li , Xiaoyong Du

Large Language Model (LLM) agents are rapidly improving to handle increasingly complex web-based tasks. Most of these agents rely on general-purpose, proprietary models like GPT-4 and focus on designing better prompts to improve their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Junhong Shen , Atishay Jain , Zedian Xiao , Ishan Amlekar , Mouad Hadji , Aaron Podolny , Ameet Talwalkar

Transcending human cognitive limitations represents a critical frontier in LLM training. Proprietary agentic systems like DeepResearch have demonstrated superhuman capabilities on extremely complex information-seeking benchmarks such as…

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly revolutionized web search. The emergence of LLM-based Search Agents marks a pivotal shift towards deeper, dynamic, autonomous information seeking. These agents can comprehend user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yunjia Xi , Jianghao Lin , Yongzhao Xiao , Zheli Zhou , Rong Shan , Te Gao , Jiachen Zhu , Weiwen Liu , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) demonstrates remarkable performance across tasks in open-domain question-answering. However, traditional search engines may retrieve shallow content, limiting the ability of LLMs to handle complex,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jialong Wu , Wenbiao Yin , Yong Jiang , Zhenglin Wang , Zekun Xi , Runnan Fang , Linhai Zhang , Yulan He , Deyu Zhou , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang

In the information era, how learners find, evaluate, and effectively use information has become a challenging issue, especially with the added complexity of large language models (LLMs) that have further confused learners in their…

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