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Reliable evaluation of AI agents operating in complex, real-world environments requires methodologies that are robust, transparent, and contextually aligned with the tasks agents are intended to perform. This study identifies persistent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Deepak Akkil , Mowafak Allaham , Amal Raj , Tamer Abuelsaad , Ravi Kokku

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant advancements in reasoning and agent-based problem-solving, current evaluation methodologies fail to adequately assess their capabilities: existing benchmarks either rely on…

We introduce DRBench, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on complex, open-ended deep research tasks in enterprise settings. Unlike prior benchmarks that focus on simple questions or web-only queries, DRBench evaluates agents on multi-step…

Large language models (LLMs) have created new opportunities to enhance the efficiency of scholarly activities; however, challenges persist in the ethical deployment of AI assistance, including (1) the trustworthiness of AI-generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Mengze Hong , Di Jiang , Chen Jason Zhang , Zichang Guo , Yawen Li , Jun Chen , Shaobo Cui , Zhiyang Su

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

Search agents have emerged as a pivotal paradigm for solving open-ended, knowledge-intensive reasoning tasks. However, training these agents via Reinforcement Learning (RL) faces a critical dilemma: interacting with live commercial Web APIs…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Xichen Zhang , Ziyi He , Yinghao Zhu , Sitong Wu , Shaozuo Yu , Meng Chu , Wenhu Zhang , Haoru Tan , Jiaya Jia

The rapid growth of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has created a proliferation of toolkits, yet a fundamental gap remains between experimental prototypes and robust, production-ready systems. We present SearchGym, a modular…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Jerome Tze-Hou Hsu

As the volume of published scholarly literature continues to grow, finding relevant literature becomes increasingly difficult. With the rise of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Allard Oelen , Mohamad Yaser Jaradeh , Sören Auer

Deep research agents have emerged as powerful systems for addressing complex queries. Meanwhile, LLM-based retrievers have demonstrated strong capability in following instructions or reasoning. This raises a critical question: can LLM-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Tiansheng Hu , Yilun Zhao , Canyu Zhang , Arman Cohan , Chen Zhao

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have emerged as a transformative approach for open-ended problem solving, with information seeking (IS) being a core capability that enables autonomous reasoning and decision-making. While prior…

Agentic search such as Deep Research systems-where agents autonomously browse the web, synthesize information, and return comprehensive citation-backed answers-represents a major shift in how users interact with web-scale information. While…

Many research areas rely on data from the web to gain insights and test their methods. However, collecting comprehensive research datasets often demands manually reviewing many web pages to identify and record relevant data points, which is…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Sunith Vallabhaneni , Thomas Berkane , Maimuna Majumder

Language models are known to hallucinate incorrect information, and it is unclear if they are sufficiently accurate and reliable for use in scientific research. We developed a rigorous human-AI comparison methodology to evaluate language…

Thousands of new scientific papers are published each month. Such information overload complicates researcher efforts to stay current with the state-of-the-art as well as to verify and correctly attribute claims. We pose the following…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Ori Press , Andreas Hochlehnert , Ameya Prabhu , Vishaal Udandarao , Ofir Press , Matthias Bethge

Given the remarkable performance of Large Language Models (LLMs), an important question arises: Can LLMs conduct human-like scientific research and discover new knowledge, and act as an AI scientist? Scientific discovery is an iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Tingting Chen , Srinivas Anumasa , Beibei Lin , Vedant Shah , Anirudh Goyal , Dianbo Liu

Recent advances in autonomous digital agents from industry (e.g., Manus AI and Gemini's research mode) highlight potential for structured tasks by autonomous decision-making and task decomposition; however, it remains unclear to what extent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yen-Che Chien , Kuang-Da Wang , Wei-Yao Wang , Wen-Chih Peng

Amongst the most common use cases of modern AI is LLM chat with web search enabled. However, no direct evaluations of the quality of web research agents exist that control for the continually-changing web. We introduce Deep Research Bench,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 FutureSearch , : , Nikos I. Bosse , Jon Evans , Robert G. Gambee , Daniel Hnyk , Peter Mühlbacher , Lawrence Phillips , Dan Schwarz , Jack Wildman

Verifiability is a core content policy of Wikipedia: claims that are likely to be challenged need to be backed by citations. There are millions of articles available online and thousands of new articles are released each month. For this…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has emerged as a transformative force in financial analysis and the finance industry, though significant questions remain about the full capabilities of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in this…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Antoine Bigeard , Langston Nashold , Rayan Krishnan , Shirley Wu

The advances made by Large Language Models (LLMs) have led to the pursuit of LLM agents that can solve intricate, multi-step reasoning tasks. As with any research pursuit, benchmarking and evaluation are key corner stones to efficient and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Luca Gioacchini , Giuseppe Siracusano , Davide Sanvito , Kiril Gashteovski , David Friede , Roberto Bifulco , Carolin Lawrence