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Agent2UCB: Agentic System for Generative Engine Optimization

Agent2UCB is a new agentic system designed for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), which refines content to boost its likelihood of being cited or summarized by generative AI search engines. The system autonomously evaluates nine GEO strategies for each content item, selects the most effective one, and speeds up this selection using a bandit-based Agent2UCB policy that blends large language model priors with real-time reward signals. Additionally, it offers a lightweight, text-only SEO readiness check that assesses readability, topical coverage, and EEAT-style credibility, and experiments on GEO-Bench demonstrate consistent visibility gains while maintaining SEO quality.

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Jun 2

Characterizing Web Search in The Age of Generative AI

arXiv:2510. 11560v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The advent of LLMs has given rise to generative search, a new search paradigm in which LLMs retrieve information from the web related to a query and synthesize it into a single, coherent response.

By Elisabeth Kirsten, Jost Grosse Perdekamp, Qinyuan Wu, Mihir Upadhyay, Krishna P. Gummadi, Muhammad Bilal Zafar
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arXiv AI
Aug 26

ICA: Information-Aware Credit Assignment for Visually Grounded Long-Horizon Information-Seeking Agents

The paper introduces ICA, an evidence‑centric framework that represents information from web‑tool interactions as stable, rendered snapshots, enabling comparison across trajectories. It proposes Information‑Aware Credit Assignment, a post‑hoc reward propagation technique that estimates turn‑level utility from rollout success and assigns dense rewards to steps that provide high‑utility information. When combined with GSPO, ICA consistently improves performance on several web‑search benchmarks such as BrowseComp, GAIA, Xbench‑DS, and Seal‑0.

By Cong Pang, Xuyu Feng, Yujie Yi, Jiaqi Su, Zixuan Chen, Jiawei Hong, Tiankuo Yao, Nang Yuan, Jiapeng Luo, Lewei Lu, Xin Lou
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arXiv AI
Sep 4

When Optimization Becomes Manipulation: Defending Generative Search against Malicious Generative Engine Optimization

The paper introduces GEO Defender, a two‑stage defense system designed to protect generative search engines from malicious Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) attacks that rewrite web documents to manipulate generated answers. GEO Defender comprises a Shield Reranker, which learns a defensive residual to demote GEO‑rewritten documents while maintaining relevance, and a Training‑Free Shield Generation component that creates a natural‑language library guiding the target LLM’s source usage during inference. Experiments on both closed‑source and open‑source large language models show that GEO Defender dramatically lowers attack success rates from 50.32% to 6.20%, preserves over 94% of benign evidence usage, and maintains answer quality while generalizing to unseen attacks.

By Haozhang Li, Yangguang Shao, Xinjie Lin, Zhong Guan, Mi Zhou, Junzheng Shi
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arXiv AI
Jun 12

DailyReport: An Open-ended Benchmark for Evaluating Search Agents on Daily Search Tasks

arXiv:2606. 12871v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search Agents (SAs) typically leverage large language models (LLMs) to support complex information-seeking tasks by autonomously exploring web sources and synthesizing information into comprehensive responses.

By Jingxuan Han, Wei Liu, Mingyang Zhu, Youpeng Wang, Ziwen Wang, Lin Qiu, Xuezhi Cao, Xunliang Cai, Zheren Fu, Licheng Zhang, Zhendong Mao
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arXiv AI
2d ago

Characterizing Web Search by Conversational LLM Agents: From Search Decisions and Strategies to Results and Responses

The study examines how conversational LLM agents—specifically ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and DeepSeek—use Web search, combining real user interactions with controlled API experiments. It finds that agents differ in when they decide to search, how they craft queries, and which domains they favor, and that more frequent searching does not always improve answer quality. While most responses are grounded in search results, some claims are unsupported, raising attribution concerns.

By Mahsa Amani, Seungeon Lee, Abhisek Dash, Asmaa El Fraihi, Yunah Jang, Elisabeth Kirsten, Qinyuan Wu, Krishna P. Gummadi, Manish Gupta, Abhilasha Ravichander, Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Soumi Das
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arXiv AI
Jul 24

Self-Evolving Recommendation System: End-To-End Autonomous Model Optimization With LLM Agents

arXiv:2602. 10226v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Optimizing large-scale machine learning systems, such as recommendation models for global video platforms, requires navigating a massive hyperparameter search space and, more critically, designing sophisticated optimizers, architectures, and reward functions to capture nuanced user behaviors.

By Haochen Wang, Yi Wu, Daryl Chang, Li Wei, Lukasz Heldt
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Sep 8

Q2D-Web: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Retrieval in Agentic RAG Systems

Q2D-Web is a new large‑scale benchmark for agentic Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, featuring a 190 million‑document web corpus and 70 k machine‑reformulated search queries in ten languages. It supplies three sets of relevance judgments—agent citations, production rankings, and a combined set enriched with LLM‑based labels—to evaluate first‑stage retrievers. Experiments on 13 retrievers show consistent ranking across judgment sets but significant variation across domains, languages, and query types, and demonstrate that a carefully sampled sub‑corpus can approximate full‑corpus evaluation with minimal loss in Recall@1000.

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