arXiv:2607. 21461v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research requires agents to find answers that jointly satisfy multiple constraints.
By Shuqi Lu, Chaofan Li, Kun Luo, Zhang Zhang, Hui Wang, Hongwang Xiao, Zheng Liu, Lei Xiong, Jiahao Wang, Sen Wang, Xiyan Jiang, Wanli Li, Yuyang Hu, Hongjin Qian, Bingyu Yan, Ziyi Xia, Yingxia Shao, Kang Liu, Zhicheng Dou, Di He, Chaozhuo Li, Qiwei Ye, Zhongyuan Wang, Zheng Liu
arXiv:2606. 11926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scientific progress depends on a repeated loop of exploration, experimentation, and abstraction.
By Jiajie Jin, Yuyang Hu, Kai Qiu, Qi Dai, Chong Luo, Guanting Dong, Xiaoxi Li, Tong Zhao, Xiaolong Ma, Gongrui Zhang, Zhirong Wu, Bei Liu, Zhengyuan Yang, Linjie Li, Lijuan Wang, Hongjin Qian, Yutao Zhu, Zhicheng Dou
arXiv:2605.10899v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Deep research agents plan, search, evaluate evidence, and synthesize long-form reports. Training these agents with reinforcement learning (RL...
By Gaotang Li, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Zifeng Wang, Jun Yan, Yanfei Chen, Chun-Liang Li, Long T. Le, Rujun Han, George Lee, Hanghang Tong, Chen-Yu Lee, Tomas Pfister
Scientific progress depends on a repeated loop of exploration, experimentation, and abstraction. Researchers test candidate directions, interpret the evidence, and carry the resulting lessons into later attempts.
arXiv:2606. 19893v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep research agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in autonomous information gathering and synthesis, yet their training remains constrained by the static nature of simulated environments, the limits of fact-retrieval-only task designs, and the inefficiency of outcome-based reinforcement learning.
By Wei Yu, Suxing Liu, Minjie Yu, Jiahao Wang, Zhijian Zheng, Haocheng Deng, Bing Li
PrimeScientist is a system that jointly selects research directions and allocates resources for autonomous research agents. It models the problem as a sequential decision task, using an executable plan tree to track competing plans and an adaptive MCTS-based policy to balance exploration and exploitation based on remaining resources and experimental feedback. Experiments on AI research, systems, code optimization, and machine learning engineering show that PrimeScientist improves average reward by 10.3% while reducing research attempts by 50.6% compared to AutoResearch under the same budget.
By Xinle Yu, Fan Bai, Kaiser Sun, Hengshuo Miao, Abhay Anand, Zhongyan Luo, Kun Zhou, Zhen Wang