arXiv AI
Jul 24
AREX: Towards a Recursively Self-Improving Agent for Deep Research
arXiv:2607. 21461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research requires agents to find answers that jointly satisfy multiple constraints.
Not Worth Another Token: Marginal Value Estimation for Efficient Deep Research Agents
arXiv:2608. 08389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon research agents solve open-ended tasks through iterative retrieval, aggregation, and synthesis, but context grows rapidly while the marginal value of additional evidence often declines.
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arXiv AI
Jun 16
S1-DeepResearch: Beyond Search, Toward Real-World Long-Horizon Research Agents
arXiv:2606. 15367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents aim to solve complex knowledge-intensive tasks through long-horizon planning, evidence gathering, reasoning, and report generation.
arXiv AI
Aug 28
DeepPlanner: Scaling Planning Capability for Deep Research Agents via Advantage Shaping
DeepPlanner is an end-to-end reinforcement learning framework designed to enhance the planning capabilities of deep research agents. It introduces an entropy-based advantage shaping mechanism that allocates larger updates to high-entropy planning tokens and selectively upweights sample-level advantages during planning-intensive rollouts. Experiments on seven deep research benchmarks show that DeepPlanner improves planning quality and achieves state‑of‑the‑art results with a lower training budget.
arXiv AI
Sep 25
IDRBench: Benchmarking the Interactive Capabilities of Deep Research Agents
IDRBench is a benchmark designed to evaluate the interactive capabilities of deep research agents that use large language models. It introduces controlled opportunities for clarification within a common workflow, comparing autonomous and interactive trajectories by measuring task‑specific report alignment and interaction cost. Experiments on 100 tasks with seven LLMs show that interaction consistently improves alignment, though its effectiveness varies depending on the agents’ questions and feedback integration.
arXiv AI
Jul 7
Toward Efficient Agents: Memory, Tool learning, and Planning
arXiv:2601. 14192v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent years have witnessed increasing interest in extending large language models into agentic systems.
arXiv AI
Jun 9
SearchSwarm: Towards Delegation Intelligence in Agentic LLMs for Long-Horizon Deep Research
arXiv:2606. 09730v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly expected to handle complex, long-horizon real-world tasks whose context demands can grow without bound, yet model context windows remain inherently finite.
arXiv AI
4d ago
LongCat-DeepResearch Technical Report
LongCat-DeepResearch is a deep research system that merges an enhanced LongCat model with a multi‑agent workflow to produce comprehensive, evidence‑grounded reports. The workflow separates global planning from detailed investigation, using planning agents to create a ResearchSpec and research agents to draft sections in parallel, followed by targeted local revisions guided by global review. The system achieves strong benchmark scores, including 55.25 on DeepResearchBench and 79.83 on ResearchRubrics, and shows benefits from combining planning perspectives and additional editing for readability.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22
Strategy Accumulation and Guided Execution for Automated LLM Fine-Tuning
The paper introduces Strategy Accumulation and Guided Execution (SAGE), a two-stage framework that makes automated fine-tuning of large language models cumulative. In the first stage, a multi-agent pipeline uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to explore training strategies while a Distillation Agent records task-specific insights and cross-task confidence scores into a structured repository. In the second stage, SAGE retrieves relevant experience from this repository to guide training on new tasks, achieving a 12.4‑percentage‑point improvement over a baseline pipeline without accumulated experience on nine unseen tasks.
arXiv AI
3d ago
AIM: Agentic Idea Management for Automated Research
arXiv:2609.38445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier LLMs are increasingly used to automate scientific research through iterative search. We distinguish idea-driven search from solution-driven se...
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27
Mind2Report: Expert-Level Commercial Report Synthesis via Cognitive Deep Research Agent
Mind2Report is a cognitive deep research agent designed to produce expert-level commercial reports from large, noisy web sources. It first clarifies detailed commercial intent to build a structured outline, then recursively gathers and validates evidence into a research memory that evolves with the outline, enabling iterative synthesis of comprehensive reports. The authors also introduce QRC‑Eval, a benchmark of 200 real-world commercial tasks, and show through extensive experiments that Mind2Report outperforms existing proprietary and open-source deep research agents, with ablation studies confirming the contribution of each component.
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31
ContextPilot: Teaching Agents for Proactive Context Management via Fine-grained RL
ContextPilot is a proactive context‑management framework designed to improve long‑horizon agentic reasoning with large language models. It expands the toolset to include planning, long‑term memory, and soft context offloading, and introduces a reinforcement‑learning strategy that focuses on critical editing decisions and assigns action‑level advantages. Experiments on long‑context QA and deep search tasks demonstrate that ContextPilot achieves stronger performance with a more compact working context, outperforming existing baselines across various base models and benchmarks.
arXiv AI
Aug 7
Personalized Deep Research Query Refinement with Graph-Scaffolded Evidence Grounding
arXiv:2608. 05876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: User requests serve as research specifications for deep research agents, shaping what evidence to seek and how to synthesize it.