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SimpleWikiSearch: A Clean Offline Wikipedia Environment for Agentic Search

arXiv:2607. 26070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based agentic search systems are often evaluated as if the underlying LLM were the only component that matters, yet their measured performance also depends on the surrounding search environment: the Wikipedia snapshot, preprocessing pipeline, chunking policy, retrieval backend, tool schema, observation format, and answer submission rule.

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Superintelligent Retrieval Agent: The Next Frontier of Agentic Retrieval

arXiv:2605. 06647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-augmented agents are increasingly the interface to large knowledge bases, yet most treat retrieval as a black box: they issue exploratory queries, inspect snippets, and reformulate until evidence emerges.

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EMBL AI Librarian: Life-Sciences Knowledge Layer for AI Agents

arXiv:2607. 28229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The web is increasingly accessed by AI agents rather than humans.

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LakeQA: An Exploratory QA Benchmark over a Million-Scale Data Lake

arXiv:2606. 10460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) have shown rapid progress in reading-based question answering (QA), where evidence is explicitly provided or can be trivially retrieved.

By Haonan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Yurong Liu, Austin Senna Wijaya, Tianle Zhou, Eden Wu, Yijia Chen, Wanting You, Reya Vir, Daniela Pinto, Grace Fan, Yusen Zhang, Juliana Freire, Eugene Wu

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LLM Agents Factory: Retrieval of Domain-Specific LLM Agents

arXiv:2608. 09934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) agents improve task performance by decomposing problems into role-specialized behaviors.

By Vitalii Belov, Artyom Sosedka, Andrey Sakhovskiy, Elizaveta Kovtun, Artyom Boyarskikh, Semen Budennyy

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Search, Inspect, Fetch: Exploiting Structure-Aware Boolean Retrieval for Deep-Research Agents

arXiv:2608. 02751v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing deep-research agents use a Search--Visit workflow that retrieves whole webpages without considering the structure they expose through titles, headings, sections, and metadata.

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Search, Inspect, Fetch: Exploiting Boolean Retrieval for Deep-Research Agents

arXiv:2608. 02751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing deep-research agents use a search-visit workflow that retrieves and reads whole pages, without considering the addressable structure that web sources expose through titles, headings, sections, and metadata.

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