cs.AIApr 10, 2026

DRBENCHER: Can Your Agent Identify the Entity, Retrieve Its Properties and Do the Math?

Authors: Young-Suk Lee, Ramon Fernandez Astudillo, Radu Florian

Organizations: IBM Research

Abstract

Deep research agents increasingly interleave web browsing with multi-step computation, yet existing benchmarks evaluate these capabilities in isolation, creating a blind spot in assessing real-world performance. We introduce DRBENCHER, a synthetic benchmark generator for questions that require both browsing and computation, synthesized answer-first from knowledge-graph chains with no seed passages or provenance text. It enforces four criteria: verifiability (gold answers are computed by executing parameterized code over knowledge-graph values), complexity (multi-hop entity identification, property retrieval, and domain-specific computation), difficulty (a two-stage verification cascade filters out questions solvable by the generating model), and diversity (a greedy max-min embedding filter maximizes coverage). These criteria are realized via a unified answer-first pipeline spanning five domains: biochemistry, financial, geophysical, security, and history. Human evaluation shows 76% validity, with 35% of errors due to outdated knowledge-graph entries, highlighting an inherent limitation of systems that reason over evolving data. Automatic evaluation shows that the strongest frontier model achieves only 20% answer accuracy. Compared to manually constructed benchmarks (BrowseComp+, MATH-500, GPQA), DRBENCHER achieves the highest semantic diversity. We release DrBencher pipeline and the human-verified benchmark data at https://github.com/IBM/DrBencher.

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