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:2606. 10460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) have shown rapid progress in reading-based question answering (QA), where evidence is explicitly provided or can be trivially retrieved.
By Haonan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Yurong Liu, Austin Senna Wijaya, Tianle Zhou, Eden Wu, Yijia Chen, Wanting You, Reya Vir, Daniela Pinto, Grace Fan, Yusen Zhang, Juliana Freire, Eugene Wu
arXiv:2609.13768v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-hop question answering often fails when retrieval treats evidence as isolated matches to the original question, since the facts needed to answer...
By An Nguyen Phu, Dung Nguyen Quang, Luu Hieu An, Linh Ngo Van, Trung Le, Thien Huu Nguyen
PRISM is an agentic retrieval framework that uses large language models in a structured loop to improve evidence gathering for multi‑hop question answering. It splits retrieval into three specialized agents—a Question Analyzer, a Selector focused on precision, and an Adder focused on recall—whose iterative interaction yields a compact yet comprehensive evidence set. Experiments on HotpotQA, 2WikiMultiHopQA, MuSiQue, and MultiHopRAG show that PRISM consistently outperforms strong baselines by achieving higher retrieval accuracy and filtering out distracting content.
By Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei
arXiv:2609.07050v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) critically depends on retrieving the evidence necessary for effective reasoning. However, this remains particularl...
By JungMin Yun, YoungBin Kim
arXiv:2608.22479v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables LLMs to access external knowledge for answering knowledge-intensive questions. For complex multi-hop quest...
By Jun Chen, Yongchao Liu, Pengyu Qiu, Jiajun Zheng, Juelu Zhang, Yujie Zeng, Qin Zhang, Ziyue Qiao, Xiao Luo
arXiv:2609.14412v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deep research agents answer complex questions through iterative loops of searching, reading, and reasoning. Recent work on reasoning-intensive benchmar...
By Radin Hamidi Rad, Amin Bigdeli, Negar Arabzadeh, Sajad Ebrahimi, Charles L. A. Clarke, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Ebrahim Bagheri
arXiv:2608. 13588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-hop question answering requires complex reasoning across multiple evidence segments, which often overwhelms retrieval-augmented generation systems with lengthy and noisy contexts, thereby undermining both efficiency and accuracy.
By JungMin Yun, YoungBin Kim
DeepWeaver is a framework designed to improve open‑ended question answering by weaving noisy retrieved evidence into comprehensive, well‑cited answers. It introduces Thought Block Chains (TBCs) that organize claims, key information, and supporting evidence, and uses subordinate TBCs to refine and expand the evidence before final generation. Evaluations on LoQA and DeepResearch Bench show that DeepWeaver enhances content sufficiency, citation grounding, and detail preservation across multiple LLMs.
By Xujia Wang, Yizhe Zhang, Bin Xu, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li
DynaKRAG is a unified framework that learns a state‑conditioned policy to control evidence acquisition in multi‑hop retrieval‑augmented generation. It uses a deterministic validity layer to build an action set, a learned continuation gate to decide between generating an answer or gathering more evidence, and an advantage scorer to rank evidence operations by predicted gain. Across HotpotQA, 2Wiki, and MuSiQue with various backbone models, DynaKRAG achieves top EM and F1 scores, improves token and retrieval efficiency, and enables terminal evidence compression that reduces context size while boosting answer quality.
By Chenyu Zhou, Yaqi Wu, Xiaolei Guo, Jiaqi Huang, Xianfa Zhang, Junxu Zhang, Zhuo Yu, Zhubo Shi, Jianghao Lin, Dongdong Ge
The paper introduces BRIDGE, a bilevel optimization framework that jointly trains a large language model (LLM) and a retriever for agentic reinforcement learning (ARL). It demonstrates that adapting the retriever before the policy yields better rewards, and that BRIDGE outperforms existing methods on seven open‑domain QA benchmarks and medical QA tasks, achieving significant gains in accuracy and reasoning quality.
By Quan Xiao, Mingda Liu, Gaowen Liu, Katsuki Fujisawa, Tianyi Chen
arXiv:2606. 00593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed as tool-augmented agents to acquire information beyond parametric knowledge.
By Qiming Shi, Zhaolu Kang, Yunfan Zhou, Di Weng, Yingcai Wu