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Deep research agents autonomously conduct open-ended investigations, integrating complex information retrieval with multi-step reasoning across diverse sources to solve real-world problems. To sustain this capability on long-horizon tasks,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Bin Zhu , Qianghuai Jia , Tian Lan , Junyang Ren , Feng Gu , Feihu Jiang , Longyue Wang , Zhao Xu , Weihua Luo

Scientific Deep Research (DR) agents answer user queries by synthesizing research papers into multi-section reports. User feedback can improve their utility, but existing protocols only score the final report, making it hard to study and…

Although there are many methods for functional data analysis (FDA), little emphasis is put on characterizing variability among volatilities of individual functions. In particular, certain individuals exhibit erratic swings in their…

Applications · Statistics 2012-12-04 Bin Zhu , David B. Dunson

Recent advances in Deep Research Agents (DRAs) are transforming automated knowledge discovery and problem-solving. While the majority of existing efforts focus on enhancing policy capabilities via post-training, we propose an alternative…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Yuxuan Wan , Tianqing Fang , Zaitang Li , Yintong Huo , Wenxuan Wang , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu , Michael R. Lyu

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

Distributed resource allocation (DRA) is fundamental to modern networked systems, spanning applications from economic dispatch in smart grids to CPU scheduling in data centers. Conventional DRA approaches require reliable communication, yet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Sergio Pequito

Given a user's complex information need, a multi-agent Deep Research system iteratively plans, retrieves, and synthesizes evidence across hundreds of documents to produce a high-quality answer. In one possible architecture, an orchestrator…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Arthur Câmara , Vincent Slot , Jakub Zavrel

The COVID-19 pandemic brings many unexpected disruptions, such as frequently shifting markets and limited human workforce, to manufacturers. To stay competitive, flexible and real-time manufacturing decision-making strategies are needed to…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Mingjie Bi , Ilya Kovalenko , Dawn M. Tilbury , Kira Barton

We consider a setting in which $N$ agents aim to speedup a common Stochastic Approximation (SA) problem by acting in parallel and communicating with a central server. We assume that the up-link transmissions to the server are subject to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Nicolò Dal Fabbro , Arman Adibi , H. Vincent Poor , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Aritra Mitra , George J. Pappas

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) generate citation-rich reports via multi-step search and synthesis, yet existing benchmarks mainly target text-only settings or short-form multimodal QA, missing end-to-end multimodal evidence use. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Peizhou Huang , Zixuan Zhong , Zhongwei Wan , Donghao Zhou , Samiul Alam , Xin Wang , Zexin Li , Zhihao Dou , Li Zhu , Jing Xiong , Chaofan Tao , Yan Xu , Dimitrios Dimitriadis , Tuo Zhang , Mi Zhang

Decision making in modern stochastic systems, including e-commerce platforms, financial markets and healthcare systems, has evolved into a multifaceted process that combines information acquisition and adaptive information sources. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-07 Renyuan Xu , Thaleia Zariphopoulou , Luhao Zhang

Automata extraction is a method for synthesising interpretable surrogates for black-box neural models that can be analysed symbolically. Existing techniques assume a finite input alphabet, and thus are not directly applicable to data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chih-Duo Hong , Hongjian Jiang , Anthony W. Lin , Oliver Markgraf , Julian Parsert , Tony Tan

Decisions for a variable renewable resource generators commitment in the energy market are typically made in advance when little information is obtainable about wind availability and market prices. Much research has been published…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Razan A. H. Al-Lawati , Jose L. Crespo-Vazquez , Tasnim Ibn Faiz , Xin Fang , Md. Noor-E-Alam

This paper introduces Stochastic RAG--a novel approach for end-to-end optimization of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) models that relaxes the simplifying assumptions of marginalization and document independence, made in most prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Hamed Zamani , Michael Bendersky

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

DeepResearch agents represent a transformative AI paradigm, conducting expert-level research through sophisticated reasoning and multi-tool integration. However, evaluating these systems remains critically challenging due to open-ended…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Tianyu Fan , Xinyao Niu , Yuxiang Zheng , Fengji Zhang , Chengen Huang , Bei Chen , Junyang Lin , Chao Huang

Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Agentic RAG) enhances the processing capability for complex tasks through dynamic retrieval and adaptive workflows. Recent advances (e.g., Search-R1) have shown that outcome-supervised reinforcement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yongqi Leng , Yikun Lei , Xikai Liu , Meizhi Zhong , Bojian Xiong , Yurong Zhang , Yan Gao , Yi Wu , Yao Hu , Deyi Xiong

Hybrid multiscale modelling has emerged as a useful framework for modelling complex biological phenomena. However, when accounting for stochasticity in the internal dynamics of agents, these models frequently become computationally…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-11 Daria Stepanova , Helen M. Byrne , Philip K. Maini , Tomás Alarcón

We address the reachability problem for continuous-time stochastic dynamic systems. Our objective is to present a unified framework that characterizes the reachable set of a dynamic system in the presence of both stochastic disturbances and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Saber Jafarpour , Zishun Liu , Yongxin Chen

Deep Q-learning algorithms often suffer from poor gradient estimations with an excessive variance, resulting in unstable training and poor sampling efficiency. Stochastic variance-reduced gradient methods such as SVRG have been applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Haonan Jia , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu , Wei Zeng , Hao Jiang , Xiaohui Yan , Ji-Rong Wen