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:2608.23045v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Web search agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) show strong promise, but deep research tasks expose a recurring failure mode: once an agent h...
By Xiangxin Zhang, Zhanwei Zhang, Zhihang Fu, Binbin Lin, Wenxiao Wang
Large language models are increasingly deployed as agents that reason over documents rather than answer from parametric knowledge. We study archive-grounded reasoning: locating sparse evidence across a large, messy collection of workplace files, reconciling inconsistent terminology, units, and time conventions, and computing an answer.
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:2607. 17291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents increasingly operate over the open web, where relevant records coexist with redundant summaries, outdated reports, and misleading documents.
By Jun Nie, Zhiqin Yang, Zhenheng Tang, Yonggang Zhang, Xiaowen Chu, Xinmei Tian, Bo Han
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.
By Ruizhe Li, Mingxuan Du, Benfeng Xu, Chiwei Zhu, Xiaorui Wang, Zhendong Mao
arXiv:2607. 28229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The web is increasingly accessed by AI agents rather than humans.
By Luigi Sigillo, Matteo Silvestri, Francesco Tabaro, Rajat Bhatnagar, Syed Irtaza Mubashar, Matt Jeffryes, Daljit Nijjer, Vittorio Perera, Ola Spjuth, Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Melissa Harrison, Fabio Petroni
WebArxiv is a reproducible benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal web agents on arXiv-related tasks. It consists of 510 static, time‑invariant tasks that require multi‑constraint paper retrieval, fine‑grained content extraction, and cross‑paper comparison, each with a deterministic ground truth. The benchmark highlights challenges for foundation‑model agents, such as over‑reliance on fixed interaction histories, and introduces a lightweight dynamic‑memory mechanism to improve adaptive retrieval and reasoning.
By Zihao Sun, Zijing Shi, Ling Chen
arXiv:2606. 02060v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep-research agents solve tasks through long trajectories of search, tool use, evidence inspection, and answer synthesis.
By Jiaming Wang, Ziteng Feng, Jiangtao Wu, Ruihao Li, Qianqian Xie, Yuxiang Ren, He Zhu, Xueming Han, Fanyu Meng, Junlan Feng, Jiaheng Liu
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.
By Pengyu Zhu, Lijun Li, Longju Yang, Sen Su
IDRBench is a benchmark designed to evaluate the interactive capabilities of deep research agents that use large language models. It introduces controlled opportunities for clarification within a common workflow, comparing autonomous and interactive trajectories by measuring task‑specific report alignment and interaction cost. Experiments on 100 tasks with seven LLMs show that interaction consistently improves alignment, though its effectiveness varies depending on the agents’ questions and feedback integration.
By Yingchaojie Feng, Qiang Huang, Xiaoya Xie, Zhaorui Yang, Jun Yu, Wei Chen, Anthony K. H. Tung
arXiv:2606. 06462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Benchmarks are fundamental for evaluating and advancing LLMs and MLLMs by providing standardized and explicit measures of performance.
By Shiyun Xiong, Dongming Wu, Peiwen Sun, Yuang Ai, Bokang Yang, Wencheng Han, Xiao-Hui Li, Xiangyu Yue