arXiv AI

Is Deep Research Reliable? Misleading Knowledge Induces False Conclusions

arXiv:2607. 20891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep Research agents extend LLM-based assistants into long-horizon workflows involving planning, retrieval, evidence synthesis, and report generation, yet their reliability in open information environments remains underexplored.

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.

By Shuqi Lu, Chaofan Li, Kun Luo, Zhang Zhang, Hui Wang, Hongwang Xiao, Zheng Liu, Lei Xiong, Jiahao Wang, Sen Wang, Xiyan Jiang, Wanli Li, Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian, Bingyu Yan, Ziyi Xia, Yingxia Shao, Kang Liu, Zhicheng Dou, Di He, Chaozhuo Li, Qiwei Ye, Zhongyuan Wang, Zheng Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Can AI Agents Synthesize Scientific Conclusions?

arXiv:2606. 11337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific AI agents increasingly retrieve evidence, reason across sources, and synthesize conclusions used in consequential decisions.

By Hayoung Jung, Pedro Viana Diniz, Jos\'e Reinaldo Corr\^ea Roveda, Abner Fernandes da Silva, Haeun Jung, Enoch Tsai, Aleksandra Korolova, Manoel Horta Ribeiro
arXiv AI
Jun 19

MetaResearcher: Scaling Deep Research via Self-Reflective Reinforcement Learning in Adversarial Virtual Environments

arXiv:2606. 19893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in autonomous information gathering and synthesis, yet their training remains constrained by the static nature of simulated environments, the limits of fact-retrieval-only task designs, and the inefficiency of outcome-based reinforcement learning.

By Wei Yu, Suxing Liu, Minjie Yu, Jiahao Wang, Zhijian Zheng, Haocheng Deng, Bing Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

SearchArt: Training Long-Horizon Search Agent with Scalable Synthetic and Verified Task

arXiv:2607. 24850v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled search agents to autonomously tackle complex tasks across extended search and reasoning horizons.

By Lang Mei, Xiaohan Yu, Chong Chen, Liyan Liu, Xiangnan Chen, Jinchao Ma, Chao Feng, Li Huang, Siyu Mo, Sichen Kang, Yunkun Xu, Zhihan Yang, Zhujun Xue, Jingren Zhang, Qing He, Yingdi Huang, Hao Jiang, Ziao Ma, Zewei Pan, Minhao Sun, Zhuo Tao, Jinzhao Xiao, Gangtao Xin, Huanyao Zhang, Wenjian Zhang, Jiangshan Zhang, Guojie Zhu, Fangzhou Zou, Jiaxin Mao, Wentao Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 4

Towards Verifiable Multimodal Deep Research: A Multi-Agent Harness for Interleaved Report Generation

arXiv:2605. 29861v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced autonomous agents from deep search, which retrieves concise factual answers, to deep research, which synthesizes scattered evidence into long-form reports.

By Chenghao Zhang, Guanting Dong, Yufan Liu, Tong Zhao, Xiaoxi Li, Zhicheng Dou
arXiv AI
Jul 14

FIRE-Bench: Evaluating AI Agents on the Rediscovery of Scientific Insights

arXiv:2602. 02905v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) promise to accelerate scientific discovery end-to-end, but rigorously evaluating their capacity for verifiable discovery remains a central challenge.

By Zhen Wang, Fan Bai, Zhongyan Luo, Jinyan Su, Kaiser Sun, Xinle Yu, Jieyuan Liu, Kun Zhou, Claire Cardie, Mark Dredze, Zhiting Hu, Eric P. Xing