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VeriTrace: Evolving Mental Models for Deep Research Agents

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arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

Mind2Report: Expert-Level Commercial Report Synthesis via Cognitive Deep Research Agent

Mind2Report is a cognitive deep research agent designed to produce expert-level commercial reports from large, noisy web sources. It first clarifies detailed commercial intent to build a structured outline, then recursively gathers and validates evidence into a research memory that evolves with the outline, enabling iterative synthesis of comprehensive reports. The authors also introduce QRC‑Eval, a benchmark of 200 real-world commercial tasks, and show through extensive experiments that Mind2Report outperforms existing proprietary and open-source deep research agents, with ablation studies confirming the contribution of each component.

By Mingyue Cheng, Daoyu Wang, Qi Liu, Shuo Yu, Xiaoyu Tao, Yuqian Wang, Chengzhong Chu, Yu Duan, Mingkang Long, Enhong Chen
arXiv AI
Oct 1

DAGent: Evaluate-then-Grow Planning for Deep Research Agents

DAGent introduces an Evaluate‑then‑Grow planning approach for deep research agents, building directed acyclic graphs incrementally based on confidence and uncertainty from completed tasks. The framework includes a hierarchical context layer for efficient query handling and a structural reinforcement learning component, DAGRPO, that rewards topology‑conditioned execution. Experiments on BrowseComp‑Plus, GAIA, and xbench‑DeepSearch show DAGent outperforming strong baselines across multiple backbones and scaling to large language models.

By Hanwen Liu, Yuanfu Sun, Qiaoyu Tan
arXiv AI
Jul 24

AREX: Towards a Recursively Self-Improving Agent for Deep Research

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 AI
Sep 25

IDRBench: Benchmarking the Interactive Capabilities of Deep Research Agents

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