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The rapid progress of Large Language Models (LLMs) has given rise to a new category of autonomous AI systems, referred to as Deep Research (DR) agents. These agents are designed to tackle complex, multi-turn informational research tasks by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yuxuan Huang , Yihang Chen , Haozheng Zhang , Kang Li , Huichi Zhou , Meng Fang , Linyi Yang , Xiaoguang Li , Lifeng Shang , Songcen Xu , Jianye Hao , Kun Shao , Jun Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at many reasoning tasks but struggle with knowledge-intensive queries due to their inability to dynamically access up-to-date or domain-specific information. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minghao Guo , Qingcheng Zeng , Xujiang Zhao , Yanchi Liu , Wenchao Yu , Mengnan Du , Haifeng Chen , Wei Cheng

Humans intuitively solve complex problems by flexibly shifting among reasoning modes: they plan, execute, revise intermediate goals, resolve ambiguity through associative judgment, and apply formal procedures to well-specified subproblems.…

Large reasoning models have demonstrated strong problem-solving abilities, yet real-world tasks often require external tools and long-horizon interactions. Existing agent frameworks typically follow predefined workflows, which limit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Xiaoxi Li , Wenxiang Jiao , Jiarui Jin , Guanting Dong , Jiajie Jin , Yinuo Wang , Hao Wang , Yutao Zhu , Ji-Rong Wen , Yuan Lu , Zhicheng Dou

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) towards autonomous agents has catalyzed progress in Deep Research. While retrieval capabilities are well-benchmarked, the post-retrieval synthesis stage--where agents must digest massive amounts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hongzhi Zhang , Yuanze Hu , Tinghai Zhang , Jia Fu , Tao Wang , Junwei Jing , Zhaoxin Fan , Qi Wang , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Guorui Zhou , Kun Gai

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) utilizes external knowledge to augment Large Language Models' (LLMs) reliability. For flexibility, agentic RAG employs autonomous, multi-round retrieval and reasoning to resolve queries. Although recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Chao Zhang , Yuhao Wang , Derong Xu , Haoxin Zhang , Yuanjie Lyu , Yuhao Chen , Shuochen Liu , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yan Gao , Yao Hu , Enhong Chen

Many real-world questions appear deceptively simple yet implicitly demand two capabilities: (i) systematic coverage of a bounded knowledge universe and (ii) compositional set-based reasoning over that universe, a phenomenon we term "the tip…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiao Zhang , Qianru Meng , Yongjian Chen , Yumeng Wang , Johan Bos

Comprehending genomic information is essential for biomedical research, yet extracting data from complex distributed databases remains challenging. Large language models (LLMs) offer potential for genomic Question Answering (QA) but face…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Kimia Abedini , Farzad Shami , Gianmaria Silvello

Humans are remarkably flexible when understanding new sentences that include combinations of concepts they have never encountered before. Recent work has shown that while deep networks can mimic some human language abilities when presented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yen-Ling Kuo , Boris Katz , Andrei Barbu

Deep search agents, which aim to answer complex questions requiring reasoning across multiple documents, can significantly speed up the information-seeking process. Collecting human annotations for this application is prohibitively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Fangyuan Xu , Rujun Han , Yanfei Chen , Zifeng Wang , I-Hung Hsu , Jun Yan , Vishy Tirumalashetty , Eunsol Choi , Tomas Pfister , Chen-Yu Lee

Building on the Agentic ROI framework proposed by Liu et al. (2026), this paper introduces knowledge compounding as a new measurable concept in the empirical economics of LLM agents and validates it through a controlled four-query…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-04-16 Shuide Wen , Beier Ku

Large language model agents are becoming increasingly capable at web-centric tasks such as information retrieval, complex reasoning. These emerging capabilities have given rise to surge research interests in developing LLM agent for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yu Li , Lehui Li , Lin Chen , Qingmin Liao , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

The rapid advancement of large language models has fundamentally shifted the bottleneck in AI development from computational power to data availability-with countless valuable datasets remaining hidden across specialized repositories,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Keyu Li , Mohan Jiang , Dayuan Fu , Yunze Wu , Xiangkun Hu , Dequan Wang , Pengfei Liu

General AI Agents are increasingly recognized as foundational frameworks for the next generation of artificial intelligence, enabling complex reasoning, web interaction, coding, and autonomous research capabilities. However, current agent…

Complex dialog systems often use retrieved evidence to facilitate factual responses. Such RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) systems retrieve from massive heterogeneous data stores that are usually architected as multiple indexes or APIs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Ashutosh Joshi , Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar , Samarth Varshney , Sreyashi Nag , Shrivats Agrawal , Juhi Naik

Agentic reasoning enables large reasoning models (LRMs) to dynamically acquire external knowledge, but yet optimizing the retrieval process remains challenging due to the lack of dense, principled reward signals. In this paper, we introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Senkang Hu , Yong Dai , Yuzhi Zhao , Yihang Tao , Yu Guo , Zhengru Fang , Sam Tak Wu Kwong , Yuguang Fang

Effective information seeking in the vast and ever-growing digital landscape requires balancing expansive search with strategic reasoning. Current large language model (LLM)-based agents struggle to achieve this balance due to limitations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Xianghe Pang , Shuo Tang , Rui Ye , Yuwen Du , Yaxin Du , Siheng Chen

Compositional generalization, the ability of an agent to generalize to unseen combinations of latent factors, is easy for humans but hard for deep neural networks. A line of research in cognitive science has hypothesized a process,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yi Ren , Samuel Lavoie , Mikhail Galkin , Danica J. Sutherland , Aaron Courville

Compositionality is one of the fundamental abilities of the human reasoning process, that allows to decompose a complex problem into simpler elements. Such property is crucial also for neural networks, especially when aiming for a more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Luigi Quarantiello , Andrea Cossu , Vincenzo Lomonaco

Complex information needs may involve set-compositional queries using conjunction, disjunction, and exclusion, yet it remains unclear whether current retrieval paradigms genuinely satisfy such constraints or exploit `semantic shortcuts'. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Vincent Degenhart , Dewi Timman , Arjen P. de Vries , Faegheh Hasibi , Mohanna Hoveyda