3 papers
cs.CL2026
ORBIT: Scalable and Verifiable Data Generation for Search Agents on a Tight Budget
Nandan Thakur, Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma +1
Search agents, which integrate language models (LMs) with web search, are becoming crucial for answering complex user queries. Constructing training datasets for deep research task…
cs.CL2026
AgentIR: Reasoning-Aware Retrieval for Deep Research Agents
Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang +3
Deep Research agents are rapidly emerging as primary consumers of modern retrieval systems. Unlike human users who issue and refine queries without documenting their intermediate t…
cs.IR2026
Still Fresh? Evaluating Temporal Drift in Retrieval Benchmarks
Nathan Kuissi, Suraj Subrahmanyan, Nandan Thakur +1
Information retrieval (IR) benchmarks typically follow the Cranfield paradigm, relying on static and predefined corpora. However, temporal changes in technical corpora, such as API…