2 papers
cs.CL2026
Avoiding What Your Teacher Already Knows: Entity Familiarity for Deep-Search Distillation
Yifei Liu, Zhixiang Liang, Wentao Tan +4
Deep-search agents are commonly trained by distilling tool-use trajectories from stronger teacher models. However, structurally complex questions may remain relatively easy for tea…
cs.AI2026
SearchAuditor: Auditing and Attributing Failures in Long-Horizon Search Agents
Zhixiang Liang, Yifei Liu, Yidan Huang +5
Deep search agents tackle challenging questions through long-horizon web interactions, a process that is both complex and fragile: small reasoning errors may propagate through long…