arXiv AI

Benchmarking Agentic Newswriting via Journalistic Workflows

arXiv:2509. 00446v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in autonomous digital agents from industry (e.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

DataSTORM: Deep Research on Large-Scale Databases using Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Storytelling

DataSTORM is an LLM‑based agentic system designed to conduct deep research over large‑scale structured databases and internet sources. It applies principles of Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Storytelling to frame research as a thesis‑driven analytical process, iteratively generating hypotheses, performing quantitative reasoning, and crafting coherent narratives. Evaluations on InsightBench and a new ACLED‑based dataset show that DataSTORM surpasses existing systems, achieving significant improvements in insight‑level recall and summary‑level scores.

By Shicheng Liu, Yucheng Jiang, Sajid Farook, Camila Nicollier Sanchez, David Fernando Castro Pena, Monica S. Lam
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 18

Data Journalist Agent: Transforming Data into Verifiable Multimodal Stories

The paper introduces Data Journalist Agent (Data2Story), a multi‑agent framework that orchestrates specialized roles into a single virtual newsroom to produce evidence‑grounded, multimodal news stories. It ensures every claim is traceable to data, code, or external references via an Inspector, and generates interactive visualizations such as maps and audio to match reader interests. Evaluations on 18 articles show competitive performance in angle coverage, rubric scores, and verifiability, while human writers still lead in editorial angle and creative design.

By Kevin Qinghong Lin, Batu EI, Yuhong Shi, Pan Lu, Juil Sock, Djordje Padejski, Philip Torr, James Zou
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