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  1. Long-MDR: Long-Context Reinforcement Learning for Multimodal Deep-Research Agents

    Oct 4, 2026On Tai TangReinforcement LearningDeep Research Agents

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

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

    Sep 30, 2026Hanwen Liu, Yuanfu Sun, Qiaoyu TanMulti-Agent LLM SystemsDeep Research Agents

    New York University · New York University Shanghai

  3. Search Shapes Conclusions: Auditing Evidence Selection Bias in Deep Research Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Shuyao Xiao, Shengling Wang, Xuan Chen +8Causal Effect EstimationDeep Research Agents

    Beijing Normal University · Ke Holdings

  4. LongCat-DeepResearch Technical Report

    Sep 28, 2026Meituan LongCat Team, He Zhu, Yue Xu +28Deep Research AgentsMulti-Agent Planning

    Meituan LongCat Team

  5. Dr.Credit: Rubric-Grounded Process Credit Assignment for Deep Research Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Yingjian Zhu, Zhenyi Wang, Jiaxin Guo +6Deep Research AgentsStep-Level Credit Assignment in RL

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems (MAIS), Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Alibaba Token Hub, Alibaba Group +1

  6. What Happens During Autonomous Deep Research After the User Steps Away?

    Sep 27, 2026Yimin Liu, Yijia Zhang, Yanmin Li +4Counterfactual EvaluationDeep Research Agents

    University of Southern California · University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +3

  7. Decomposition Buys Integrity, Not Yield

    Sep 15, 2026Rong HeMulti-Agent System OptimizationDeep Research Agents

  8. Benchmarking Hybrid Deep Research Across Database Querying and Web Search

    Sep 8, 2026Ruofan Wu, Peiran Xu, Xiaolong Li +9Deep Research AgentsAgentic Search

    University of Houston · University of California, Los Angeles · The University of Hong Kong +2

  9. ArcticSwarm: Deferring Early Consensus in Long-Horizon Multi-Agent Research

    Sep 1, 2026Soyoung Yoon, Boyi Liu, Yite Wang +6Deep Research AgentsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Seoul National University · Snowflake AI Research

  10. Explore Before Committing: Hypothesis-Guided Search for Deep Research Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Ruochen Zhou, Zhengyu Chen, Luan Zhang +3Inference-Time SearchDeep Research Agents

    City University of Hong Kong · Meituan · Independent +1

  11. DualStake: Dual-Path Confidence Calibration in Deep Research Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Yinuo Xu, Yuwei Liang, Jianjie Cheng +4Deep Research AgentsLanguage Model Calibration

    NLPR & MAIS, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA) · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Meituan Inc.

  12. Last Step Matters: Early Uncertainty Cannot Predict Failure in Long-Horizon Agents

    Aug 30, 2026Zongyue Li, Chengyue Yu, Lei Zang +3Deep Research AgentsLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group

  13. Long-Horizon AI Research for Grothendieck Constant: A Case Study in Human-AI Mathematical Collaboration

    Aug 11, 2026Alan Li, Rahul Saha, Anton Xue +4Deep Research AgentsAI-Assisted Scientific Research

  14. Not Worth Another Token: Marginal Value Estimation for Efficient Deep Research Agents

    Aug 9, 2026Harshitha Kolukuluru, Reshma Ashok, Kirat Arora +7Deep Research AgentsAI Agent Evaluation

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · The University of Texas at Austin · Adobe Research

  15. Personalized Deep Research Query Refinement with Graph-Scaffolded Evidence Grounding

    Aug 6, 2026Soojin Yoon, Dongha LeeDeep Research AgentsClarification Question Generation

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University

  16. SearchAuditor: Auditing and Attributing Failures in Long-Horizon Search Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Zhixiang Liang, Yifei Liu, Yidan Huang +5Agent Failure AnalysisAI Agent Reliability

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · 2Joy Future Academy, JD

  17. Video-DeepResearch: Towards the Next-Generation Multimodal Deepresearch Agent

    Aug 4, 2026Zhen Fang, Yu Zeng, Wenxuan Huang +17Deep Research AgentsVideo QA

  18. Training Documents Reranker with Search Rubrics for Deep Research Agent

    Aug 4, 2026Wenhan Liu, Yu Lu, Qiaolin Xia +8Deep Research AgentsLearning to Rank

    1Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · 2Tencent, Beijing, China

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

    Aug 3, 2026Shuai Wang, Haodong Chen, Yu Yin +3Deep Research AgentsWeb Search Agents

    The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia · CSIRO, Brisbane, Australia

  20. Diagnosing Search Behavior and Failure Modes in Long-Horizon Search Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Qi Liu, Jiaxin Mao, Fengbin Zhu +1Deep Research AgentsLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    Renmin University of China Beijing, China · National University of Singapore Singapore

  21. FinDeepIndicator: Benchmarking Deep Research Agents in End-to-End Financial Indicator Construction

    Aug 1, 2026Chaoqun Yang, Fengbin Zhu, Xinyu Lin +5Quantitative FinanceDeep Research Agents

    School of Computing, National University of Singapore · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics +1

  22. Deep Research Pretraining via Predictive Navigation

    Aug 1, 2026Jiang Zhou, Zhiyuan Fan, Xing Wu +3Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Training

    Hunyuan Team, Tencent

  23. FinanceHarness: Autonomous Financial Deep Research Framework

    Jul 30, 2026Yijia Xiao, Rujun Han, Yanfei Chen +8Deep Research AgentsFinancial Forecasting

    Google Cloud AI Research · University of California, Los Angeles

  24. Baikal: Structured Search for Deep Research over Data Lakes

    Jul 30, 2026Dhruv Agarwal, Rishitha Guttapalle Mohan, Aarti Kumari +5Deep Research AgentsAgentic Search

    University of Massachusetts Amherst · IBM Research

  25. DeepResearch Agent System

    Jul 30, 2026Yong Huang, Yulu Huang, for the team CollaborationDeep Research AgentsLLM Inference Acceleration

  26. Delegation Intelligence in Deep Search: A Controllable Framework for Disentangled Capability Diagnosis

    Jul 26, 2026Xinhao Yao, Yuanzhuo Liu, Changhao Wang +6Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Tencent · Renmin University of China · UCAS +1

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

    Jul 23, 2026Shuqi Lu, Chaofan Li, Kun Luo +21Agentic RLDeep Research Agents

    Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI)

  28. Is Deep Research Reliable? Misleading Knowledge Induces False Conclusions

    Jul 23, 2026Pengyu Zhu, Lijun Li, Longju Yang +2Deep Research AgentsRAG Poisoning Attacks

    1Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · 2Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · 3Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications

  29. DRNOISE: Benchmarking Deep Research Agents in Misleading Evidence Environments

    Jul 19, 2026Jun Nie, Zhiqin Yang, Zhenheng Tang +4AI Agent ReliabilityDeep Research Agents

    Hong Kong Baptist University · University of Science and Technology of China · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

  30. WebSwarm: Recursive Multi-Agent Orchestration for Deep-and-Wide Web Search

    Jul 9, 2026Xiaoshuai Song, Liancheng Zhang, Kangzhi Zhao +8Multi-Agent OrchestrationDeep Research Agents

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · Kuaishou Technology

  31. FORGE: Research-Trajectory Hijacking Attacks on Deep Research Agents

    Jul 6, 2026Yue Pan, Ziheng Zhang, Junxiang Lei +3Deep Research AgentsRAG Poisoning Attacks

    Fudan University · Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Explore Academy, JD

  32. ScaffoldAgent: Utility-Guided Dynamic Outline Optimization for Open-Ended Deep Research

    Jun 18, 2026Zhibang Yang, Xinke Jiang, Yuzhen Xiao +9Long-Form Document GenerationDeep Research Agents

    National Engineering Research Center of Software Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China +2

  33. MetaResearcher: Scaling Deep Research via Self-Reflective Reinforcement Learning in Adversarial Virtual Environments

    Jun 18, 2026Wei Yu, Suxing Liu, Minjie Yu +4Reinforcement LearningDeep Research Agents

    School of Digital Arts, Jiangxi Arts & Ceramics Technology Institute, Jingdezhen 33001, China · Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 USM Penang, Malaysia

  34. DRFLOW: A Deep Research Benchmark for Personalized Workflow Prediction

    Jun 16, 2026Md Tawkat Islam Khondaker, Raymond Li, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed +2LLM PersonalizationDeep Research Agents

    Canada Research Chair in NLP and ML · The University of British Columbia

  35. DEEPRUBRIC: Evidence-Tree Rubric Supervision for Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Deep Research Agents

    Jun 15, 2026Minghang Zhu, Chuyang Wei, Junhao Xu +3Deep Research AgentsRubric-Based RL

    Shandong University, Qingdao, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing, China · Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  36. S1-DeepResearch: Beyond Search, Toward Real-World Long-Horizon Research Agents

    Jun 13, 2026Yao Dong, Xinglin Xiao, Liwei Dong +5Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Training

    XScience Lab · Wenge AI

  37. Beyond Monolingual Deep Research: Evaluating Agents and Retrievers with Cross-Lingual BrowseComp-Plus

    Jun 13, 2026Yuheng Lu, Qingcheng Zeng, Heli Qi +6Multilingual Language Model EvaluationDeep Research Agents

    Waseda University · Northwestern University · RIKEN AIP +4

  38. Hybrid Open-Ended Tri-Evolution Makes Better Deep Researcher

    Jun 10, 2026Hongming Piao, Chi Liu, Mengzhuo Chen +5Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Training

    IQuest Research · Zhejiang University

  39. FORT-Searcher: Synthesizing Shortcut-Resistant Search Tasks for Training Deep Search Agents

    Jun 10, 2026Jia Deng, Yimeng Chen, Xiaoqing Xiang +9Deep Research AgentsAgentic Search

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · KAUST · IQuest Research +1

  40. Multi-Turn Evaluation of Deep Research Agents Under Process-Level Feedback

    Jun 8, 2026Rishabh Sabharwal, Hongru Wang, Amos Storkey +1Deep Research AgentsAI Agent Evaluation

    School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  41. DuMate-DeepResearch: An Auditable Multi-Agent System with Recursive Search and Rubric-Grounded Reasoning

    Jun 5, 2026Lingyong Yan, Can Xu, Yukun Zhao +13Deep Research AgentsAgentic Search

    DuMate Team, Baidu AI Cloud

  42. Struct-Searcher: Agentic Structural Thinking Advances Multimodal Deep Information Seeking

    Jun 5, 2026Fan Zhang, Vireo Zhang, Shengju Qian +7Multimodal IRBelief Revision

    1CUHK · 2LIGHTSPEED · 3PKU +3

  43. Search-Time Contamination in Deep Research Agents: Measuring Performance Inflation in Public Benchmark Evaluation

    Jun 3, 2026Yongjie Wang, Xinyue Zhang, Kunhong Yao +4Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    Alibaba-NTU Global e-Sustainability CorpLab (ANGEL) · College of Computing & Data Science · Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group

  44. TVIR: Building Deep Research Agents Towards Text-Visual Interleaved Report Generation

    Jun 1, 2026Xinkai Ma, Zhiqi Bai, Dingling Zhang +21Deep Research AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

    Nanjing University · Alibaba Group

  45. Where Do Deep-Research Agents Go Wrong? Span-Level Error Localization in Agent Trajectories

    Jun 1, 2026Jiaming Wang, Ziteng Feng, Jiangtao Wu +8Agent Failure AnalysisDeep Research Agents

    NJU-LINK Team, Nanjing University · JIUTIAN Research

  46. Planner-Centric Reinforcement Learning for Deep Research with Structure-Aware Reward

    May 29, 2026Mustafa Anis Hussain, Xinle Wu, Yao LuDeep Research AgentsLLM Planning

    National University of Singapore

  47. MosaicLeaks:Privacy Risks in Querying-in-the-Open for Deep Research Agents

    May 29, 2026Alexander Gurung, Spandana Gella, Alexandre Drouin +3Data LeakageDeep Research Agents

    University of Edinburgh · ServiceNow AI Research · McGill University +2

  48. VeriTrace: Evolving Mental Models for Deep Research Agents

    May 25, 2026Haolang Zhao, Yunbo Long, Lukas Beckenbauer +1Cognitive ModelingDeep Research Agents

    Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge · TUM School of Management, Technical University of Munich · The Alan Turing Institute

  49. An Interactive Paradigm for Deep Research

    May 22, 2026Lin Ai, Victor S. Bursztyn, Xiang Chen +2Deep Research AgentsHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    Department of Computer Science, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · Adobe Research, San Jose, CA, USA

  50. QUEST: Training Frontier Deep Research Agents with Fully Synthetic Tasks

    May 22, 2026Jian Xie, Tianhe Lin, Zilu Wang +16Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Training

    1The Ohio State University · 2Amazon AGI SF Lab

  51. Co-ReAct: Rubrics as Step-Level Collaborators for ReAct Agents

    May 22, 2026Jiazheng Kang, Bowen Zhang, Zixin Song +4Deep Research AgentsAgentic Reasoning

    Qwen Applications Business Group of Alibaba · Tsinghua University

  52. Evaluating Deep Research Agents on Expert Consulting Work: A Benchmark with Verifiers, Rubrics, and Cognitive Traps

    May 17, 2026Tanmay Asthana, Aman Saksena, Divyansh SahuAI Agent ReliabilityDeep Research Agents

    Deccan AI Research

  53. Argus: Evidence Assembly for Scalable Deep Research Agents

    May 15, 2026Zhen Zhang, Liangcai Su, Zhuo Chen +7Multi-Agent LLM SystemsTool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    MiroMind AI

  54. AgentDisCo: Towards Disentanglement and Collaboration in Open-ended Deep Research Agents

    May 12, 2026Jiarui Jin, Zexuan Yan, Shijian Wang +2Deep Research AgentsMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Xiaohongshu Inc.

  55. Hypothesis-Driven Deep Research with Large Language Models: A Structured Methodology for Automated Knowledge Discovery

    May 11, 2026Michael ChinDeep Research AgentsAI-Assisted Scientific Research

    Independent Researcher

  56. BioMedArena: An Open-source Toolkit for Building and Evaluating Biomedical Deep Research Agents

    May 7, 2026Jinge Wu, Hongjian Zhou, Mingde Zeng +8AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryDeep Research Agents

    University of Oxford · University College London · Technical University of Munich +1

  57. SciResearcher: Scaling Deep Research Agents for Frontier Scientific Reasoning

    May 2, 2026Tianshi Zheng, Rui Wang, Xiyun Li +5AI for ScienceDeep Research Agents

    HKUST · CUHK · Tencent AI Lab

  58. AutoResearchBench: Benchmarking AI Agents on Complex Scientific Literature Discovery

    Apr 28, 2026Lei Xiong, Kun Luo, Ziyi Xia +15Deep Research AgentsScientific Discovery

    AutoResearchBench Team*

  59. Dont Stop Early: Scalable Enterprise Deep Research with Controlled Information Flow and Evidence-Aware Termination

    Apr 27, 2026Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Pranav Narayanan Venkit +5Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Orchestration

    Salesforce AI Research

  60. DRACULA: Hunting for the Actions Users Want Deep Research Agents to Execute

    Apr 26, 2026Nishant Balepur, Malachi Hamada, Varsha Kishore +9Deep Research AgentsLLM Agent Evaluation

    University of Maryland · New York University · Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Ai2)