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As scientific literature grows rapidly, automated survey generation has become a key capability for AI scientists and human researchers. However, existing systems suffer from limited analytical depth due to reliance on abstracts and…

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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.…

As AI-driven document understanding and processing tools become increasingly prevalent in real-world applications, the need for rigorous evaluation standards has grown increasingly urgent. Existing benchmarks and evaluations often focus on…

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

We publicly release a new large-scale dataset, called SearchQA, for machine comprehension, or question-answering. Unlike recently released datasets, such as DeepMind CNN/DailyMail and SQuAD, the proposed SearchQA was constructed to reflect…

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The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has driven the development of agentic systems capable of autonomously performing complex tasks. Despite their impressive capabilities, LLMs remain constrained by their internal knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Wenlin Zhang , Xiaopeng Li , Yingyi Zhang , Pengyue Jia , Yichao Wang , Huifeng Guo , Yong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao

We introduce PATHWAYS, a benchmark of 250 multi-step decision tasks that test whether web-based agents can discover and correctly use hidden contextual information. Across both closed and open models, agents typically navigate to relevant…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Shifat E. Arman , Syed Nazmus Sakib , Tapodhir Karmakar Taton , Nafiul Haque , Shahrear Bin Amin

The rapid growth of AI agent ecosystems is transforming how complex tasks are delegated and executed, creating a new challenge of identifying suitable agents for a given task. Unlike traditional tools, agent capabilities are often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Bin Wu , Arastun Mammadli , Xiaoyu Zhang , Emine Yilmaz

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

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

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

Large language model (LLM)-based search agents have proven promising for addressing knowledge-intensive problems by incorporating information retrieval capabilities. Existing works largely focus on optimizing the reasoning paradigms of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Tongyu Wen , Guanting Dong , Zhicheng Dou

Web agents such as Deep Research have demonstrated superhuman cognitive abilities, capable of solving highly challenging information-seeking problems. However, most research remains primarily text-centric, overlooking visual information in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Xinyu Geng , Peng Xia , Zhen Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Qiuchen Wang , Ruixue Ding , Chenxi Wang , Jialong Wu , Yida Zhao , Kuan Li , Yong Jiang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Diagnosing failure patterns in Deep Research Agents (DRAs) remains a critical challenge. Existing benchmarks predominantly rely on end-to-end evaluation, obscuring intermediate hallucinations that accumulate throughout the research…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuhao Zhan , Tianyu Fan , Linxuan Huang , Zirui Guo , Chao Huang

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

Long-Form Question Answering (LFQA) involves generating comprehensive, paragraph-level responses to open-ended questions, which poses a significant challenge for evaluation due to the richness of information and flexible response format.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yuchen Fan , Chen Lin , Xin Zhong , Shuo Zhang , Heng Zhou , Yuchen Zhang , Mingyu Liang , Chengxing Xie , Ermo Hua , Gang Chen , Zhizhou He , Cheng Huang , Ning Ding , Bowen Zhou

Retrieving real-time information is a fundamental capability for search-integrated agents in real-world applications. However, existing benchmarks are predominantly static and therefore fail to capture the temporal dynamics of information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Wenjie Zhou , Yuan Gao , Xin Zhou , Hao Fu , Zhongjian Miao , Wei Chen , Bo Chen , Xiaobing Zhao

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly accelerated the development of search agents capable of autonomously gathering information through multi-turn web interactions. Various benchmarks have been proposed to…

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) aim to solve complex, long-horizon research tasks involving planning, retrieval, multimodal understanding, and report generation, yet their evaluation remains challenging due to dynamic web environments and…

Developing agents capable of navigating fragmented, multi-source information remains challenging, primarily due to the scarcity of benchmarks reflecting hybrid workflows combining database querying with external APIs. To bridge this gap, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yindong Zhang , Wenmian Yang , Yiquan Zhang , Weijia Jia