3 papers
cs.LG2026
DR-Venus: Towards Frontier Edge-Scale Deep Research Agents with Only 10K Open Data
Venus Team, Sunhao Dai, Yong Deng +10
Edge-scale deep research agents based on small language models are attractive for real-world deployment due to their advantages in cost, latency, and privacy. In this work, we stud…
cs.CL2026
Information Gain-based Policy Optimization: A Simple and Effective Approach for Multi-Turn Search Agents
Guoqing Wang, Sunhao Dai, Guangze Ye +5
Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly trained with reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance their ability to interact with external environments through tool use,…
cs.CL2025
Atom-Searcher: Enhancing Agentic Deep Research via Fine-Grained Atomic Thought Reward
Yong Deng, Guoqing Wang, Zhenzhe Ying +12
Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable problem-solving abilities, but struggle with complex tasks due to static internal knowledge. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) en…