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8 papers

cs.AI2026

Dr-DCI: Scaling Direct Corpus Interaction via Dynamic Workspace Expansion

Yi Lu, Zhuofeng Li, Ping Nie +7

Agentic search over large corpora relies on retriever-mediated interfaces (e.g., BM25 or ColBERT) for scalable candidate discovery. While effective at ranking relevant documents, t…

cs.CL2026

Masking Stale Observations Helps Search Agents -- Until It Doesn't: A Regime Map and Its Mechanism

Haoxiang Zhang, Qixin Xu, Zhuofeng Li +4

Long-horizon search agents accumulate large amounts of retrieved content across many tool calls, making context-budget efficiency increasingly important. A minimal intervention is…

cs.IR2026

Beyond Semantic Similarity: Rethinking Retrieval for Agentic Search via Direct Corpus Interaction

Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Cong Wei +16

Modern retrieval systems, whether lexical or semantic, expose a corpus through a fixed similarity interface that compresses access into a single top-k retrieval step before reasoni…

cs.CL2026

ReviewGrounder: Improving Review Substantiveness with Rubric-Guided, Tool-Integrated Agents

Zhuofeng Li, Yi Lu, Dongfu Jiang +7

The rapid rise in AI conference submissions has driven increasing exploration of large language models (LLMs) for peer review support. However, LLM-based reviewers often generate s…

cs.CL2026

CocoaBench: Evaluating Unified Digital Agents in the Wild

CocoaBench Team, Shibo Hao, Zhining Zhang +29

LLM agents now perform strongly in software engineering, deep research, GUI automation, and various other applications, while recent agent scaffolds and models are increasingly int…

cs.IR2026

OpenResearcher: A Fully Open Pipeline for Long-Horizon Deep Research Trajectory Synthesis

Zhuofeng Li, Dongfu Jiang, Xueguang Ma +7

Training deep research agents requires long-horizon trajectories that interleave search, evidence aggregation, and multi-step reasoning. However, existing data collection pipelines…