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Tool-calling agents are increasingly deployed in real-world customer-facing workflows. Yet most studies on tool-calling agents focus on idealized settings with general, fixed, and well-specified tasks. In real-world applications, user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ziyi Wang , Yuxuan Lu , Yimeng Zhang , Pei Chen , Ziwei Dong , Jing Huang , Jiri Gesi , Xianfeng Tang , Chen Luo , Qun Liu , Yisi Sang , Hanqing Lu , Manling Li , Jin Lai , Dakuo Wang

Search intelligence is evolving from Deep Research to Wide Research, a paradigm essential for retrieving and synthesizing comprehensive information under complex constraints in parallel. However, progress in this field is impeded by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ziyang Huang , Haolin Ren , Xiaowei Yuan , Jiawei Wang , Zhongtao Jiang , Kun Xu , Shizhu He , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Deep Research Systems (DRS) aim to help users search the web, synthesize information, and deliver comprehensive investigative reports. However, how to rigorously evaluate these systems remains under-explored. Existing deep-research…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ruizhe Li , Mingxuan Du , Benfeng Xu , Chiwei Zhu , Xiaorui Wang , Zhendong Mao

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

Agent evaluation requires assessing complex multi-step behaviors involving tool use and intermediate reasoning, making it costly and expertise-intensive. A natural question arises: can frontier coding assistants reliably automate this…

Table processing-including cleaning, transformation, augmentation, and matching-is a foundational yet error-prone stage in real-world data pipelines. While recent LLM-based approaches show promise for automating such tasks, they often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wei Liu , Yang Gu , Xi Yan , Zihan Nan , Beicheng Xu , Keyao Ding , Bin Cui , Wentao Zhang

Existing automated research systems operate as stateless, linear pipelines -- generating outputs without maintaining any persistent understanding of the research landscape they navigate. They process papers sequentially, propose ideas…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yunbo Long

Effectively evaluating deep research agents that autonomously search the web, analyze information, and generate reports remains a major challenge, particularly when it comes to assessing long reports and giving detailed feedback on their…

Web agents, which couple language models with browsing and tool-use capabilities, show promise as open web assistants. Yet progress is increasingly limited by the lack of scalable, process-level supervision. Existing benchmarks are largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Tenghao Huang , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Yilun Zhou , Muhao Chen , Jonathan May , Chien-Sheng Wu

Addressing intricate real-world problems necessitates in-depth information seeking and multi-step reasoning. Recent progress in agentic systems, exemplified by Deep Research, underscores the potential for autonomous multi-step research. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Jialong Wu , Baixuan Li , Runnan Fang , Wenbiao Yin , Liwen Zhang , Zhengwei Tao , Dingchu Zhang , Zekun Xi , Gang Fu , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) aim to answer complex questions by searching the web, checking evidence, and synthesizing conclusions across heterogeneous sources. We introduce a category-theoretic framework for evaluating and improving such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Shuoling Liu , Zhiquan Tan , Kun Yi , Hui Wu , Yihan Li , Jiangpeng Yan , Liyuan Chen , Kai Chen , Qiang Yang

Systematic literature reviews and meta-analyses are essential for synthesizing research insights, but they remain time-intensive and labor-intensive due to the iterative processes of screening, evaluation, and data extraction. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Pouria Rouzrokh , Bardia Khosravi , Parsa Rouzrokh , Moein Shariatnia

Citation quality is crucial in information-seeking systems, directly influencing trust and the effectiveness of information access. Current evaluation frameworks, both human and automatic, mainly rely on Natural Language Inference (NLI) to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yumo Xu , Peng Qi , Jifan Chen , Kunlun Liu , Rujun Han , Lan Liu , Bonan Min , Vittorio Castelli , Arshit Gupta , Zhiguo Wang

The hallmark of Deep Research agents lies in compositional reasoning, the capacity to aggregate distributed, heterogeneous information into coherent logical insights. However, current agentic systems are often retrieval-heavy but…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Rui Wang , Ce Zhang , Jun-Yu Ma , Jianshu Zhang , Hongru Wang , Yi Chen , Boyang Xue , Tianqing Fang , Zhisong Zhang , Hongming Zhang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu , Kam-Fai Wong

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) can autonomously conduct complex investigations and generate comprehensive reports, demonstrating strong real-world potential. However, existing evaluations mostly rely on close-ended benchmarks, while open-ended…

Artificial intelligence systems for scientific discovery have demonstrated remarkable potential, yet existing approaches remain largely proprietary and operate in batch-processing modes requiring hours per research cycle, precluding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Lukas Weidener , Marko Brkić , Mihailo Jovanović , Ritvik Singh , Chiara Baccin , Emre Ulgac , Alex Dobrin , Aakaash Meduri

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

Deep research has emerged as a transformative capability for autonomous agents, empowering Large Language Models to navigate complex, open-ended tasks. However, realizing its full potential is hindered by critical limitations, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Yuxuan Cai , Xinyi Lai , Peng Yuan , Weiting Liu , Huajian Li , Mingda Li , Xinghua Wang , Shengxie Zheng , Yanchao Hao , Yuyang Yin , Zheng Wei

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) aim to automatically produce analyst-level reports through iterative information retrieval and synthesis. However, most existing DRAs were validated on question-answering benchmarks, while research on generating…

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