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most citedDeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research Agents

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cs.CL2026

SearchAttack: Red-Teaming LLMs against Knowledge-to-Action Threats under Online Web Search

Yu Yan, Sheng Sun, Mingfeng Li +6

Recently, people have suffered from LLM hallucination and have become increasingly aware of the reliability gap of LLMs in open and knowledge-intensive tasks. As a result, they hav…

cs.CL2026

A-RAG: Scaling Agentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Hierarchical Retrieval Interfaces

Mingxuan Du, Benfeng Xu, Chiwei Zhu +4

Frontier language models have demonstrated strong reasoning and long-horizon tool-use capabilities. However, existing RAG systems fail to leverage these capabilities. They still re…

cs.CL2026

WildGraphBench: Benchmarking GraphRAG with Wild-Source Corpora

Pengyu Wang, Benfeng Xu, Licheng Zhang +4

Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) organizes external knowledge as a hierarchical graph, enabling efficient retrieval and aggregation of scattered evidence acros…

cs.CL2026

Wiki Live Challenge: Challenging Deep Research Agents with Expert-Level Wikipedia Articles

Shaohan Wang, Benfeng Xu, Licheng Zhang +5

Deep Research Agents (DRAs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in autonomous information retrieval and report generation, showing great potential to assist humans in complex…

cs.CL2026

FS-Researcher: Test-Time Scaling for Long-Horizon Research Tasks with File-System-Based Agents

Chiwei Zhu, Benfeng Xu, Mingxuan Du +4

Deep research is emerging as a representative long-horizon task for large language model (LLM) agents. However, long trajectories in deep research often exceed model context limits…

cs.CL2026

DeepResearch Bench II: Diagnosing Deep Research Agents via Rubrics from Expert Reports

Ruizhe Li, Mingxuan Du, Benfeng Xu +3

Deep Research Agents (DRA) aim to help users search the web, synthesize information, and deliver comprehensive investigative reports. Prior benchmarks often either under-evaluate a…

cs.CL2025

MCP-AgentBench: Evaluating Real-World Language Agent Performance with MCP-Mediated Tools

Zikang Guo, Benfeng Xu, Chiwei Zhu +3

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly emerging as a pivotal open standard, designed to enhance agent-tool integration and interoperability, and is positioned to unlock a new…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

DeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research Agents

Mingxuan Du, Benfeng Xu, Chiwei Zhu +2

Deep Research Agents are a prominent category of LLM-based agents. By autonomously orchestrating multistep web exploration, targeted retrieval, and higher-order synthesis, they tra…

cs.CL2025

From Real to Synthetic: Synthesizing Millions of Diversified and Complicated User Instructions with Attributed Grounding

Chiwei Zhu, Benfeng Xu, Xiaorui Wang +1

The pursuit of diverse, complex, and large-scale instruction data is crucial for automatically aligning large language models (LLMs). While there are methods capable of generating…

cs.CL2025

Rationales Are Not Silver Bullets: Measuring the Impact of Rationales on Model Performance and Reliability

Chiwei Zhu, Benfeng Xu, An Yang +4

Training language models with rationales augmentation has been shown to be beneficial in many existing works. In this paper, we identify that such a prevailing view does not hold c…

cs.CL2025

Automated Creativity Evaluation for Large Language Models: A Reference-Based Approach

Ruizhe Li, Chiwei Zhu, Benfeng Xu +2

Creative writing is a key capability of Large Language Models (LLMs), with potential applications in literature, storytelling, and various creative domains. However, evaluating the…

cs.CL2023

Grammatical Error Correction via Mixed-Grained Weighted Training

Jiahao Li, Quan Wang, Chiwei Zhu +2

The task of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) aims to automatically correct grammatical errors in natural texts. Almost all previous works treat annotated training data equally, b…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

On the Calibration of Large Language Models and Alignment

Chiwei Zhu, Benfeng Xu, Quan Wang +2

As large language models attract increasing attention and find widespread application, concurrent challenges of reliability also arise at the same time. Confidence calibration, an…