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The web contains a vast corpus of HTML tables. They can be used to provide direct answers to many web queries. We focus on answering two classes of queries with those tables: those seeking lists of entities (e.g., `cities in california')…

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Conversational interfaces provide a flexible and easy way for users to seek information that may otherwise be difficult or inconvenient to obtain. However, existing interfaces generally fall into one of two categories: FAQs, where users…

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In this paper, we introduce the AI Search Paradigm, a comprehensive blueprint for next-generation search systems capable of emulating human information processing and decision-making. The paradigm employs a modular architecture of four…

Spreadsheets are one of the most popular data analysis tools, wherein users can express computation as formulae alongside data. The ensuing dependencies are tracked as formula graphs. Efficiently querying and maintaining these formula…

LLM agents can reason and use tools, but they often break down on long-horizon tasks due to unbounded context growth and accumulated errors. Common remedies such as context compression or retrieval-augmented prompting introduce trade-offs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Chenglin Yu , Yuchen Wang , Songmiao Wang , Hongxia Yang , Ming Li

Multi-agent systems based on large language models, particularly centralized architectures, have recently shown strong potential for complex and knowledge-intensive tasks. However, central agents often suffer from unstable long-horizon…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Ruizhe Zhang , Xinke Jiang , Zhibang Yang , Zhixin Zhang , Jiaran Gao , Yuzhen Xiao , Hongbin Lai , Xu Chu , Junfeng Zhao , Yasha Wang

Agentic search has emerged as a promising paradigm for complex information seeking by enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to interleave reasoning with tool use. However, prevailing systems rely on monolithic agents that suffer from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yiqun Chen , Lingyong Yan , Zixuan Yang , Erhan Zhang , Jiashu Zhao , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Jiaxin Mao

Generative agents powered by language models are increasingly deployed for long-horizon tasks. However, as long-term memory context grows over time, they struggle to maintain coherence. This deficiency leads to critical failures, including…

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Explicit information seeking is essential to human problem-solving in practical environments characterized by incomplete information and noisy dynamics. When the true environmental state is not directly observable, humans seek information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Djengo Cyun-Jyun Fang , Tsung-Wei Ke

Contemporary large language model (LLM)-based multi-agent systems exhibit systematic advantages in deep research tasks, which emphasize iterative, vertically structured information seeking. However, when confronted with wide search tasks…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mingju Chen , Guibin Zhang , Heng Chang , Yuchen Guo , Shiji Zhou

In a data warehousing process, the phase of data integration is crucial. Many methods for data integration have been published in the literature. However, with the development of the Internet, the availability of various types of data…

Databases · Computer Science 2008-09-17 Omar Boussaïd , Fadila Bentayeb , Jérôme Darmont

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

Incorporating external knowledge bases in traditional retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) relies on parsing the document, followed by querying a language model with the parsed information via in-context learning. While effective for…

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Developing a universal model that can efficiently and effectively respond to a wide range of information access requests -- from retrieval to recommendation to question answering -- has been a long-lasting goal in the information retrieval…

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Most commodity software lacks accessible Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), requiring autonomous agents to interact solely through pixel-based Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). In this API-free setting, large language model…

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The ability to inspect, interpret, and communicate complex data is crucial for virtually any scientific endeavor, but often requires significant expertise outside the core domain ranging from data management and analysis to visualization…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Haichao Miao , Zhimin Li , Kuangshi Ai , Kaiyuan Tang , Chaoli Wang , Peer-Timo Bremer , Shusen Liu

Deep research agents have achieved remarkable progress on complex information seeking tasks. Even long ReAct style rollouts explore only a single trajectory, while recent state of the art systems scale inference time compute via parallel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Zhen Zhang , Liangcai Su , Zhuo Chen , Xiang Lin , Haotian Xu , Simon Shaolei Du , Kaiyu Yang , Bo An , Lidong Bing , Xinyu Wang

When people search for information about a new topic within large document collections, they implicitly construct a mental model of the unfamiliar information space to represent what they currently know and guide their exploration into the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Mengtian Guo , Zhilan Zhou , David Gotz , Yue Wang

Keyword search in relational databases has been widely studied in recent years because it does not require users neither to master a certain structured query language nor to know the complex underlying database schemas. Most of existing…

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Many problems can be viewed as forms of geospatial search aided by aerial imagery, with examples ranging from detecting poaching activity to human trafficking. We model this class of problems in a visual active search (VAS) framework, which…

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