most citedDeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research Agents

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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

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.IR2025

An Index-based Approach for Efficient and Effective Web Content Extraction

Yihan Chen, Benfeng Xu, Xiaorui Wang +1

As web agents (e.g., Deep Research) routinely consume massive volumes of web pages to gather and analyze information, LLM context management -- under large token budgets and low si…

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.AI2025

MIRROR: Multi-agent Intra- and Inter-Reflection for Optimized Reasoning in Tool Learning

Zikang Guo, Benfeng Xu, Xiaorui Wang +1

Complex tasks involving tool integration pose significant challenges for Large Language Models (LLMs), leading to the emergence of multi-agent workflows as a promising solution. Re…

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

Training LLM-Based Agents with Synthetic Self-Reflected Trajectories and Partial Masking

Yihan Chen, Benfeng Xu, Xiaorui Wang +2

Autonomous agents, which perceive environments and take actions to achieve goals, have become increasingly feasible with the advancements in large language models (LLMs). However,…

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…