arXiv Computation and Language

DeepResearch Bench II: Diagnosing Deep Research Agents via Rubrics from Expert Reports

Deep Research Bench II is a new benchmark designed to evaluate Deep Research Agents (DRAs) by requiring them to produce research reports for 132 grounded tasks across 22 domains. Each report is assessed using 9,430 fine‑grained binary rubrics that cover information recall, analysis, and presentation, all derived from expert‑written investigative articles through a rigorous LLM‑plus‑human pipeline. Evaluation of current state‑of‑the‑art DRAs shows that even the best models satisfy fewer than 50% of these rubrics, highlighting a significant gap between automated agents and human experts.

arXiv AI
Sep 30

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.

By Meituan LongCat Team, He Zhu, Yue Xu, Wanli Wu, Haolin Ren, Yuxin Bian, Jiarui Zhao, Rongzhi Zhang, Quanchi Weng, Jinghao Cui, Yu Fan, Yuhan Liu, Yunhu Ye, Jiyuan Ren, Fengcheng Yuan, Zhao Yang, Jiacheng Zhang, Yuchuan Dai, Ruixuan Xiao, Haozhe Sun, Xiangyuan Liu, Cheng Sun, Yao Du, Yiming Hao, Hongbo Guo, Shuo He, Lei Wang, Xunliang Cai, Yan Chen, Fan Yang, Lingchuan Liu
arXiv Computation and Language
6d ago

Beyond Watching and Searching: Benchmarking Agents for Video-centered Deep Research Reports

The paper introduces Video‑Centered Deep Research Report Generation, a new benchmark that evaluates agents on their ability to generate long, interactive research reports from a source video and user request. It presents the OmniDR‑Bench dataset with 50 tasks in Chinese and English, 19 subcategories, and 6,414 criteria, and proposes Omni Atomic Rubric Trees (Omni‑ARTs) for evaluation across audiovisual grounding, multimodal evidence use, and interactive presentation. The authors also detail a skill‑based workflow, an automated rubric construction process, and report that current agents achieve a best score of 63.3/100, highlighting gaps in content coverage, causal analysis, and citation accuracy.

By Jiahao Meng, Qize Yang, Yuxuan Wang, Yunfei Chu, Wensi Dai, Jin Xu, Yunhai Tong
arXiv AI
Jun 24

BioMedArena: An Open-source Toolkit for Building and Evaluating Biomedical Deep Research Agents

arXiv:2605. 06177v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reproducing and comparing deep research agents today is hard: the same backbone evaluated on the same benchmark can report different accuracies across papers because the harness and tool registry differ, and integrating a new model into a comparable evaluation surface costs weeks of model-specific engineering.

By Jinge Wu, Hongjian Zhou, Mingde Zeng, Jiayuan Zhu, Junde Wu, Jiazhen Pan, Ayush Noori, Sean Wu, Honghan Wu, Fenglin Liu, David A. Clifton
arXiv AI
Sep 12

Mr.LHDR: A Benchmark for Multimodal Real-World Long-Horizon Deep Research Agents

Mr.LHDR is a new benchmark designed to evaluate deep research agents on long‑horizon, multimodal tasks. It presents questions built from hidden Node‑Relation graphs that require an average of 12.1 intermediate conclusions and a mean dependency depth of 10.4 before arriving at a single verifiable answer. The benchmark tests both final answers and the correctness of intermediate conclusions, using metrics such as Overall Accuracy, Strict Accuracy, Checklist Score, and Dependency‑Aware Checklist Score.

By Minghao Guo, Meng Cao, Sui Zhao, Siyu Ning, Xin Wang, Haoze Zhao, Jiaxuan Yang, Haihong Hao, Mingfei Han, Shunlin Rong, Haijun Wu, Xiaodan Liang, Xiaojun Chang
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 11

OpenResearcher: A Fully Open Pipeline for Long-Horizon Deep Research Trajectory Synthesis

OpenResearcher is a fully open, reproducible pipeline for generating long‑horizon deep research trajectories that interleave search, evidence aggregation, and multi‑step reasoning. It decouples corpus bootstrapping from trajectory synthesis and runs the search‑and‑browse loop offline using three browser primitives over a 15M‑document corpus. Using GPT‑OSS‑120B as a teacher, the pipeline produced over 97K trajectories, enabling a 30B‑A3B model to achieve 54.8% accuracy on BrowseComp‑Plus and providing insights into pipeline design through controlled analysis.

By Zhuofeng Li, Dongfu Jiang, Xueguang Ma, Haoxiang Zhang, Ping Nie, Yuyu Zhang, Kai Zou, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Wenhu Chen