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Deep research, in which an agent searches the open web, collects evidence, and derives an answer through extended reasoning, is a prominent use case for frontier language models. Frontier deep research products score high on existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Sixiong Xie , Zhuofan Shi , Haiyang Shen , Jiuzheng Wang , Siqi Zhong , Mugeng Liu , Chongyang Pan , Peilun Jia , Baoqing Sun , Xiang Jing , Yun Ma

Deep Research (DR) agents built on Large Language Models (LLMs) can perform complex, multi-step research by decomposing tasks, retrieving online information, and synthesizing detailed reports. However, the misuse of LLMs with such powerful…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Shuo Chen , Zonggen Li , Zhen Han , Bailan He , Tong Liu , Haokun Chen , Georg Groh , Philip Torr , Volker Tresp , Jindong Gu

The growing demand for data-driven decision-making has created an urgent need for data agents that can integrate structured and unstructured data for analysis. While data agents show promise for enabling users to perform complex analytics…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ziting Wang , Shize Zhang , Haitao Yuan , Jinwei Zhu , Shifu Li , Wei Dong , Gao Cong

We introduce LongDA, a data analysis benchmark for evaluating LLM-based agents under documentation-intensive analytical workflows. In contrast to existing benchmarks that assume well-specified schemas and inputs, LongDA targets real-world…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yiyang Li , Zheyuan Zhang , Tianyi Ma , Zehong Wang , Keerthiram Murugesan , Chuxu Zhang , Yanfang Ye

Deep learning libraries like Transformers and Megatron are now widely adopted in modern AI programs. However, when these libraries introduce defects, ranging from silent computation errors to subtle performance regressions, it is often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yi Gao , Xing Hu , Tongtong Xu , Jiali Zhao , Xiaohu Yang , Xin Xia

Deep research requires reasoning over web evidence to answer open-ended questions, and it is a core capability for AI agents. Yet many deep research agents still rely on implicit, unstructured search behavior that causes redundant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Boer Zhang , Mingyan Wu , Dongzhuoran Zhou , Yuqicheng Zhu , Wendong Fan , Puzhen Zhang , Zifeng Ding , Guohao Li , Yuan He

Autonomous scientific research is significantly advanced thanks to the development of AI agents. One key step in this process is finding the right scientific literature, whether to explore existing knowledge for a research problem, or to…

Search-augmented LLM agents can produce deep research reports (DRRs), but verifying claim-level factuality remains challenging. Existing fact-checkers are primarily designed for general-domain, factoid-style atomic claims, and there is no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Yukun Huang , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Momchil Hardalov , Bhuwan Dhingra , Markus Dreyer , Venkatesh Saligrama

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

Large language models (LLMs) have sparked growing interest in machine learning research agents that can autonomously propose ideas and conduct experiments. However, existing benchmarks predominantly adopt an engineering-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Qiran Zou , Hou Hei Lam , Wenhao Zhao , Yiming Tang , Tingting Chen , Samson Yu , Tianyi Zhang , Chang Liu , Xiangyang Ji , Dianbo Liu

Equipping large language models (LLMs) with complex, interleaved reasoning and tool-use capabilities has become a key focus in agentic AI research, especially with recent advances in reasoning-oriented (``thinking'') models. Such…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Xuan-Phi Nguyen , Shrey Pandit , Revanth Gangi Reddy , Austin Xu , Silvio Savarese , Caiming Xiong , Shafiq Joty

Frontier scientific reasoning is rapidly emerging as a key foundation for advancing AI agents in automated scientific discovery. Deep research agents offer a promising approach to this challenge. These models develop robust problem-solving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Tianshi Zheng , Rui Wang , Xiyun Li , Kelvin Kiu Wai Tam , Newt Nguyen Kim Hue Nam , Wei Fan , Yangqiu Song , Tianqing Fang

Deep research -- producing comprehensive, citation-grounded reports by searching and synthesizing information from hundreds of live web sources -- marks an important frontier for agentic systems. To rigorously evaluate this ability, four…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jiayu Wang , Yifei Ming , Riya Dulepet , Qinglin Chen , Austin Xu , Zixuan Ke , Frederic Sala , Aws Albarghouthi , Caiming Xiong , Shafiq Joty

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems have advanced large language models (LLMs) in complex deep search scenarios requiring multi-step reasoning and iterative information retrieval. However, existing approaches face critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Shuang Sun , Huatong Song , Yuhao Wang , Ruiyang Ren , Jinhao Jiang , Junjie Zhang , Fei Bai , Jia Deng , Wayne Xin Zhao , Zheng Liu , Lei Fang , Zhongyuan Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

The fast-growing demands in using Large Language Models (LLMs) to tackle complex multi-step data science tasks create an emergent need for accurate benchmarking. There are two major gaps in existing benchmarks: (i) the lack of standardized,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Fan Shu , Yite Wang , Ruofan Wu , Boyi Liu , Zhewei Yao , Yuxiong He , Feng Yan

We focus here on Deep Research Agents (DRAs), which are systems that can take a natural language prompt from a user, and then autonomously search for, and utilize, internet-based content to address the prompt. Recent DRAs have demonstrated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Doaa Allabadi , Kyle Bradbury , Jordan M. Malof

Deep Research (DR) systems help researchers cope with ballooning publishing counts. Such tools synthesize scientific papers to answer research queries, but lack understanding of their users. We address this with MyScholarQA (MySQA), a…

Large language models often struggle with complex long-horizon analytical tasks over unstructured tables, which typically feature hierarchical and bidirectional headers and non-canonical layouts. We formalize this challenge as Deep Tabular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Junnan Dong , Chuang Zhou , Zheng Yuan , Yifei Yu , Qiufeng Wang , Yinghui Li , Siyu An , Di Yin , Xing Sun , Feiyue Huang

The progress of humanity is driven by those successful discoveries accompanied by countless failed experiments. Researchers often seek the potential research directions by reading and then verifying them through experiments. The process…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Haotian Chen , Xinjie Shen , Zeqi Ye , Wenjun Feng , Haoxue Wang , Xiao Yang , Xu Yang , Weiqing Liu , Jiang Bian

Enterprise deep research often fails to produce decision-ready reports due to uneven information coverage, context explosion, and premature stopping. We propose a scalable Enterprise Deep Research (EDR) architecture to address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Pranav Narayanan Venkit , Jiaxin Zhang , Vaibhav Vats , Yu Li , Xiangyu Peng , Chien-Sheng Wu