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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

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.…

We aim to develop a multimodal research agent capable of explicit reasoning and planning, multi-tool invocation, and cross-modal information synthesis, enabling it to conduct deep research tasks. However, we observe three main challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Huanjin Yao , Qixiang Yin , Min Yang , Ziwang Zhao , Yibo Wang , Haotian Luo , Jingyi Zhang , Jiaxing Huang

Recent advances in large language models have enabled deep research systems that generate expert-level reports through multi-step reasoning and evidence-based synthesis. However, evaluating such reports remains challenging: report quality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Janghoon Han , Heegyu Kim , Changho Lee , Dahm Lee , Min Hyung Park , Hosung Song , Stanley Jungkyu Choi , Moontae Lee , Honglak Lee

Deep Research (DR) requires LLM agents to autonomously perform multi-step information seeking, processing, and reasoning to generate comprehensive reports. In contrast to existing studies that mainly focus on unstructured web content, a…

Frontier deep research agents (DRAs) plan a research task, synthesize across documents, and return a structured deliverable on demand. They are being deployed in enterprise workflows faster than they are being evaluated. Existing benchmarks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tanmay Asthana , Aman Saksena , Divyansh Sahu

Deep Research (DR) agents extend Large Language Models (LLMs) beyond parametric knowledge by autonomously retrieving and synthesizing evidence from large web corpora into long-form reports, enabling a long-horizon agentic paradigm. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Haohao Luo , Zexi Li , Yuexiang Xie , Wenhao Zhang , Yaliang Li , Ying Shen

Deep research agents, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), are rapidly advancing; yet, their performance often plateaus when generating complex, long-form research reports using generic test-time scaling algorithms. Drawing inspiration…

Evaluating the clinical correctness and reasoning fidelity of automatically generated medical imaging reports remains a critical yet unresolved challenge. Existing evaluation methods often fail to capture the structured diagnostic logic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Suzhong Fu , Jingqi Dong , Xuan Ding , Rui Sun , Yiming Yang , Shuguang Cui , Zhen Li

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems improve large language model outputs by incorporating external knowledge, enabling more informed and context-aware responses. However, the effectiveness and trustworthiness of these systems…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ilias Driouich , Hongliu Cao , Eoin Thomas

Deep Research (DR) agents, powered by advanced Large Language Models (LLMs), have recently garnered increasing attention for their capability in conducting complex research tasks. However, existing literature lacks a rigorous and systematic…

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved from text generators into powerful problem solvers. Yet, many open tasks demand critical thinking, multi-source, and verifiable outputs, which are beyond single-shot prompting or standard…

We introduce DeepSearchQA, a 900-prompt benchmark for evaluating agents on difficult multi-step information-seeking tasks across 17 different fields. Unlike traditional benchmarks that target single answer retrieval or broad-spectrum…

Scientific peer review increasingly struggles to assess reproducibility at the scale and complexity of modern research output. Evaluating reproducibility requires reconstructing experimental dependencies, methodological choices, data flows,…

Deep-research agents are capable of executing multi-step web exploration, targeted retrieval, and sophisticated question answering. Despite their powerful capabilities, deep-research agents face two critical bottlenecks: (1) the lack of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Tongzhou Wu , Yuhao Wang , Xinyu Ma , Xiuqiang He , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin , Xiangyu Zhao

We present a new benchmark for evaluating Deep Search--a realistic and complex form of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that requires source-aware, multi-hop reasoning over diverse, sparsed, but related sources. These include documents,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Xiangyu Peng , Shilpa Bhagavath , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Caiming Xiong , Chien-Sheng Wu

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) plays a critical role in user-generated content (UGC) platforms, but its effectiveness critically depends on accurate query-document relevance assessment. Despite recent advances in applying large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xiaowei Yuan , Lei Jin , Haoxin Zhang , Ziyang Huang , Yan Gao , Yi Wu , Yao Hu , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

As information grows exponentially, enterprises face increasing pressure to transform unstructured data into coherent, actionable insights. While autonomous agents show promise, they often struggle with domain-specific nuances, intent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Akshara Prabhakar , Roshan Ram , Zixiang Chen , Silvio Savarese , Frank Wang , Caiming Xiong , Huan Wang , Weiran Yao

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

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