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cs.IR2026

Agentic RAG Evaluation: Budget Allocation Across Questions, Trajectories, and Reads

Jingjie Ning, Xueqi Li, Yibo Kong

Evaluation budgets in agentic retrieval-augmented generation span questions, search trajectories, and repeated answers. We measure allocation precision, reading efficiency, and cos…

cs.IR2026

Same Agent, Different Answers: A Repeat-Aware Audit of Corpus-Induced Answer Churn in Retrieval-Augmented QA

Jingjie Ning, Xueqi Li

A retrieval-augmented QA system can return different answers after an index expansion even when its requested model identifier, prompt, retrieval policy, evidence depth, rendering,…

cs.IR2026

Agentic Search in the Wild: Intents and Trajectory Dynamics from 14M+ Real Search Requests

Jingjie Ning, João Coelho, Yibo Kong +5

LLM-powered search agents are increasingly being used for multi-step information seeking tasks, yet the IR community lacks empirical understanding of how agentic search sessions un…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

Less LLM, More Documents: Searching for Improved RAG

Jingjie Ning, Yibo Kong, Yunfan Long +1

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) couples document retrieval with large language models (LLMs). While scaling generators often improves accuracy, it also increases inference and…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

DeepResearchGym: A Free, Transparent, and Reproducible Evaluation Sandbox for Deep Research

João Coelho, Jingjie Ning, Jingyuan He +8

Deep research systems represent an emerging class of agentic information retrieval methods that generate comprehensive and well-supported reports to complex queries. However, most…