2 papers
cs.CL2026
Equal Ranking Quality, Different Decisions: Measuring and Reducing Order Dependence in LLM Scorers
Markus Frohmann, Mahdiyar Alavi, Mahdiyar Ali Akbar Alavi +2
In passage reranking, response ranking and multi-document question answering, LLMs can score several candidate documents or responses together in one prompt, each still receiving i…
cs.IR2026
When Deep Research Agents Stagnate: Enhancing Reasoning with Retrieval-Aware Agent Control
Heydar Soudani, Elizabeth Lingg, Faegheh Hasibi +1
In this paper, we analyze the reasoning trajectories of a variety of DRAs and show that existing agents often suffer from reasoning stagnation: the majority of iterations contribut…