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Deep research agents have attracted growing attention for their potential to orchestrate multi-stage research workflows, spanning literature synthesis, methodological design, and empirical verification. Despite these strides, evaluating…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haiyuan Wan , Chen Yang , Junchi Yu , Meiqi Tu , Jiaxuan Lu , Di Yu , Jianbao Cao , Ben Gao , Jiaqing Xie , Aoran Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Philip Torr , Dongzhan Zhou

Deep Research agents driven by LLMs have automated the scholarly discovery pipeline, from planning and query formulation to iterative web exploration. Yet they remain constrained by a static, ``one-size-fits-all'' retrieval paradigm.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xiaopeng Li , Wenlin Zhang , Yingyi Zhang , Pengyue Jia , Yejing Wang , Yichao Wang , Yong Liu , Huifeng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao

Existing benchmarks for Deep Research Agents (DRAs) treat report generation as a single-shot writing task, which fundamentally diverges from how human researchers iteratively draft and revise reports via self-reflection or peer feedback.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bingsen Chen , Boyan Li , Ping Nie , Yuyu Zhang , Xi Ye , Chen Zhao

The advancement in Large Language Models has driven the creation of complex agentic systems, such as Deep Research Agents (DRAs), to overcome the limitations of static Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines in handling complex,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Saurav Prateek

Deep research agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), are rapidly advancing; yet, their performance often plateaus when generating complex, long-form research reports using generic test-time scaling algorithms. Drawing inspiration…

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems and web agents are increasingly evaluated on multi-hop deep search tasks, yet current practice suffers from two major limitations. First, most benchmarks leak the reasoning path in the question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Maojia Song , Renhang Liu , Xinyu Wang , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou , Dorien Herremans , Soujanya Poria

We present a long-horizon, hierarchical deep research (DR) agent designed for complex materials and device discovery problems that exceed the scope of existing Machine Learning (ML) surrogates and closed-source commercial agents. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Rui Ding , Rodrigo Pires Ferreira , Yuxin Chen , Junhong Chen

Deep-research agents are capable of executing multi-step web exploration, targeted retrieval, and sophisticated question answering. Despite their powerful capabilities, deep-research agents face two critical bottlenecks: (1) the lack of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tongzhou Wu , Yuhao Wang , Xinyu Ma , Xiuqiang He , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Xiangyu Zhao

Deep research systems are widely used for multi-step web research, analysis, and cross-source synthesis, yet their evaluation remains challenging. Existing benchmarks often require annotation-intensive task construction, rely on static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yibo Wang , Lei Wang , Yue Deng , Keming Wu , Yao Xiao , Huanjin Yao , Liwei Kang , Hai Ye , Yongcheng Jing , Lidong Bing

Deep research agents increasingly interleave web browsing with multi-step computation, yet existing benchmarks evaluate these capabilities in isolation, creating a blind spot in assessing real-world performance. We introduce DRBENCHER, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Young-Suk Lee , Ramon Fernandez Astudillo , Radu Florian

Deep learning classifiers achieve state-of-the-art performance in various risk detection applications. They explore rich semantic representations and are supposed to automatically discover risk behaviors. However, due to the lack of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Yiling He , Jian Lou , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Large Language Models (LLMs) equipped with web search capabilities have demonstrated impressive potential for deep research tasks. However, current approaches predominantly rely on either manually engineered prompts (prompt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Yuxiang Zheng , Dayuan Fu , Xiangkun Hu , Xiaojie Cai , Lyumanshan Ye , Pengrui Lu , Pengfei Liu

Deep Research agents are rapidly emerging as primary consumers of modern retrieval systems. Unlike human users who issue and refine queries without documenting their intermediate thought processes, Deep Research agents generate explicit…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zijian Chen , Xueguang Ma , Shengyao Zhuang , Jimmy Lin , Akari Asai , Victor Zhong

Medical reasoning models remain constrained by parametric knowledge and are thus susceptible to forgetting and hallucinations. DeepResearch (DR) models ground outputs in verifiable evidence from tools and perform strongly in general…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zihan Wang , Hao Wang , Shi Feng , Xiaocui Yang , Daling Wang , Yiqun Zhang , Jinghao Lin , Haihua Yang , Xiaozhong Ji

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) are promising agentic systems that gather and synthesize information to support research across domains such as financial decision-making, medical analysis, and scientific discovery. Despite recent improvements…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Haotian Zhai , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Pratik Patil , Liu Leqi

Recent progress in deep research systems has been impressive, but evaluation still lags behind real user needs. Existing benchmarks predominantly assess final reports using fixed rubrics, failing to evaluate the underlying research process.…

AI agents hold the potential to revolutionize scientific productivity by automating literature reviews, replicating experiments, analyzing data, and even proposing new directions of inquiry; indeed, there are now many such agents, ranging…

In the fast-paced financial domain, accurate and up-to-date information is critical to addressing ever-evolving market conditions. Retrieving this information correctly is essential in financial Question-Answering (QA), since many language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Chanyeol Choi , Jihoon Kwon , Jaeseon Ha , Hojun Choi , Chaewoon Kim , Yongjae Lee , Jy-yong Sohn , Alejandro Lopez-Lira

Deep Research Agents generate analyst-grade reports, yet evaluating them remains challenging due to the absence of a single ground truth and the multidimensional nature of research quality. Recent benchmarks propose distinct methodologies,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Elad Ben Avraham , Changhao Li , Ron Dorfman , Roy Ganz , Oren Nuriel , Amir Dudai , Aviad Aberdam , Noah Flynn , Elman Mansimov , Adi Kalyanpur , Ron Litman

Current search agents fundamentally lack the ability to simultaneously perform \textit{deep} reasoning over multi-hop retrieval and \textit{wide}-scale information collection-a critical deficiency for real-world applications like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Tian Lan , Bin Zhu , Qianghuai Jia , Junyang Ren , Haijun Li , Longyue Wang , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang