The paper introduces Sieve, a search‑inspect‑fetch framework that leverages a Boolean Query Language (BQL) to target specific webpage fields, rank candidates, present structure‑rich result cards, and fetch only selected sections. Compared to traditional Search‑Visit agents, Sieve achieves higher accuracy across three QA collections while reducing token usage by 20.7–50.6%. Boolean filtering consistently improves performance for all tested rankers and remains effective across different retrievers and agent backbones.
arXiv:2608. 02751v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing deep-research agents use a Search--Visit workflow that retrieves whole webpages without considering the structure they expose through titles, headings, sections, and metadata.
arXiv:2608. 02751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing deep-research agents use a search-visit workflow that retrieves and reads whole pages, without considering the addressable structure that web sources expose through titles, headings, sections, and metadata.
arXiv:2607. 26070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agentic search systems are often evaluated as if the underlying LLM were the only component that matters, yet their measured performance also depends on the surrounding search environment: the Wikipedia snapshot, preprocessing pipeline, chunking policy, retrieval backend, tool schema, observation format, and answer submission rule.
arXiv:2605. 06647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented agents are increasingly the interface to large knowledge bases, yet most treat retrieval as a black box: they issue exploratory queries, inspect snippets, and reformulate until evidence emerges.
arXiv:2606. 05875v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves large language model (LLM) answer quality by grounding generation in external evidence, but processing retrieved contexts makes the prefill stage a dominant serving cost.
Clarify-Then-Search is a benchmark that tests whether large language models can ask clarification questions to improve the usefulness of deep search results. It uses 518 real-world query pairs from Baidu, where each intent query is paired with an underspecified version. The evaluation involves a clarifier asking up to three questions, a user answerer providing only explicit information, and a rewriter generating a new query that is then searched; performance is measured by a weighted nugget-recall score.
arXiv:2607. 00007v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based web agents reduce manual scripting for web data collection, yet on live websites, they often miss relevant pages, return incomplete multimodal outputs, or return media URLs that are not directly downloadable.
arXiv:2608. 15956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic retrieval workflows produce query, retrieval, and stopping traces as a byproduct of answering questions.
arXiv:2606. 04646v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many real-world questions over business, legal, and scientific corpora are natural-language versions of database-style queries over records latent in text.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves large language model (LLM) answer quality by grounding generation in external evidence, but processing retrieved contexts makes the prefill stage a dominant serving cost. RAG cache fusion reduces this cost by reusing precomputed key-value (KV) caches for retrieved chunks and selectively recomputing tokens under the current prompt.
arXiv:2510. 19838v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous web agents powered by large language models (LLMs) show strong potential for performing goal-oriented tasks such as information retrieval, report generation, and online transactions.
arXiv:2608.22137v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern language models and agents increasingly require persistent memory for complete codebases, long interaction histories, and heterogeneous enterpri...