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  1. Programmatic Search Agents: Extending Agentic Search Beyond Query Reformulation

    Oct 5, 2026Jiaming Qian, Huiyan Yang, Mandi Liu +7Agentic SearchWeb Search Agents

    Zhejiang University · Yuanbao Team, Tencent · Peking University

  2. TRACE: Trajectory Selection for Parallel Scaling of Search Agents

    Sep 30, 2026Qisheng Zhou, Zhen Xiong, Qiaoyu TanAgentic SearchWeb Search Agents

    New York University Shanghai · New York University

  3. Traverse: Learning When to Remember, Reset, and Redirect for Long-Horizon Web Search

    Sep 29, 2026Jingyuan Ma, Lynx Aster, He Zhang +5Long-Horizon Agent EvaluationWeb Search Agents

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · ByteDance

  4. Characterizing Web Search by Conversational LLM Agents: From Search Decisions and Strategies to Results and Responses

    Sep 16, 2026Mahsa Amani, Seungeon Lee, Abhisek Dash +9Tool-Augmented Language Model AgentsAgentic Search

    Max Planck Institute for Software Systems · Saarland University · Laboratoire d’Informatique de l’École Polytechnique +3

  5. Evaluating Deep-Search Agents under Hierarchical Web Evidence Poisoning

    Sep 5, 2026Zhongan Bi, Qiwen Wang, Jianrong Jiang +11LLM Agent EvaluationWeb Search Agents

    Zhejiang University · Ant Group

  6. Iris: Climbing to the Search Frontier

    Sep 3, 2026Ziyuan Liu, Hengqi Liu, Zichuan Wang +8Multi-Hop QAWeb Search Agents

    AllSpark Team

  7. Lazy Grounding: Attacking Search Agents with Factual Evidence

    Aug 31, 2026Yulin Zhang, Yukun Huang, Sanxing Chen +4Evidence-Grounded ReasoningRAG Poisoning Attacks

    Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA

  8. Breadcrumbing Search Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Xuebin Li, Hanqing Zhao, Siyuan Liang +4Adversarial AttacksWeb Search Agents

    School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University

  9. 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

  10. Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Qi Liu, Yiqun Chen, Zidan Chen +6Agentic SearchWeb Search Agents

    1Renmin University of China · 2Xiaohongshu Inc. · 3National University of Singapore

  11. SearchMaster: Grounded and Regulated Self-Play for Search Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Wentao Tan, Qiong Cao, Jiaqi Wang +1Multi-Hop QATool-Augmented Language Model Agents

    JD Future Academy, Beijing

  12. DeepStress: Stress-Testing Deep Search Agents

    Jul 15, 2026Ismael Rousseau, Geraldine Damnati, Frederic BechetAI Agent ReliabilityAI Agent Evaluation

    Orange Research, Lannion, France · Aix-Marseille Univ., CNRS, LIS UMR 7020, 13000 Marseille, France

  13. 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

  14. DeepSearch-World: Self-Distillation for Deep Search Agents in a Verifiable Environment

    Jul 8, 2026Xinyu Geng, Xuanhua He, Sixiang Chen +7Web Search AgentsLLM Agent Self-Improvement

    HKUST · Tencent · HKUST(GZ)

  15. When Web Agents Finish but Still Fail: Reproducible Triggers and Trace Diagnostics for Parallel Web Exploration

    Jun 16, 2026Aagam Sogani, Botao Rui, Swetha Vaidyanathan +3Agent Failure AnalysisWeb Agent Benchmarks

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI, USA.

  16. EvoBrowseComp: Benchmarking Search Agents on Evolving Knowledge

    Jun 11, 2026Yunhan Wang, Jiaan Wang, Lianzhe Huang +2Benchmark ContaminationWeb Search Agents

    Northeastern University, China · Weixin AI, Tencent Inc, China

  17. DailyReport: An Open-ended Benchmark for Evaluating Search Agents on Daily Search Tasks

    Jun 11, 2026Jingxuan Han, Wei Liu, Mingyang Zhu +8LLM Agent EvaluationWeb Search Agents

    University of Science and Technology of China · Meituan

  18. LoHoSearch: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Search Agents Beyond the Human Difficulty Ceiling

    Jun 11, 2026Jiarui Zhao, Rongzhi Zhang, Lingchuan Liu +3Long-Horizon Agent EvaluationWeb Search Agents

    Meituan

  19. How AI Agents Reshape Knowledge Work: Autonomy, Efficiency, and Scope

    Jun 5, 2026Jeremy Yang, Kate Zyskowski, Noah Yonack +1Computer-Use AgentsWeb Search Agents

    Harvard University · Perplexity

  20. LiveBrowseComp: Are Search Agents Searching, or Just Verifying What They Already Know?

    May 27, 2026HuiMing Fan, Xiao Wang, Zheng Chu +5Computer-Use Agent BenchmarksLLM Agent Evaluation

    1Harbin Institute of Technology · 2Xiaohongshu

  21. SGR-Bench: Benchmarking Search Agents on State-Gated Retrieval

    May 21, 2026Ningyuan Li, Haiyang Shen, Mugeng Liu +4Web Search AgentsAI Agent Benchmarks

    2Beijing University of Technology · 1Peking University

  22. DocOS: Towards Proactive Document-Guided Actions in GUI Agents

    May 18, 2026Jingjing Liu, Ziye Huang, Zihao Cheng +6GUI AgentsWeb Search Agents

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing +2

  23. EcoGEO: Trajectory-Aware Evidence Ecosystems for Web-Enabled LLM Search Agents

    May 13, 2026Hengwei Ye, Jiasheng Mao, Zhenhan Guan +1Generative Engine OptimizationAgentic Search

    ShanghaiTech University

  24. LongSeeker: Elastic Context Orchestration for Long-Horizon Search Agents

    May 6, 2026Yijun Lu, Rui Ye, Yuwen Du +3Web Search AgentsTool-Using Agents

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  25. A Compound AI Agent for Conversational Grant Discovery

    May 4, 2026Zhisheng Tang, Mayank KejriwalAgentic SearchWeb Search Agents

    University of Southern California & GRAIL

  26. Web2BigTable: A Bi-Level Multi-Agent LLM System for Internet-Scale Information Search and Extraction

    Apr 29, 2026Yuxuan Huang, Yihang Chen, Zhiyuan He +6Multi-Agent LLM SystemsAgentic Search

    University of Liverpool · University College London · Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab

  27. WebUncertainty: Dual-Level Uncertainty Driven Planning and Reasoning For Autonomous Web Agent

    Apr 20, 2026Lingfeng Zhang, Yongan Sun, Jinpeng Hu +5Web Search AgentsMonte Carlo Tree Search

    Hefei University of Technology · Academy of Cyber, CETC Group

  28. PeopleSearchBench: Evaluating AI-Powered People Search Platforms with Criteria-Grounded Verification

    Mar 29, 2026Tianyu Shi, Wei Wang, Zequn Xie +10Web Search AgentsInformation Retrieval