14 papers
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…
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…
Hard Negatives, Hard Lessons: Revisiting Training Data Quality for Robust Information Retrieval with LLMs
Nandan Thakur, Crystina Zhang, Xueguang Ma +1
Training robust retrieval and reranker models typically relies on large-scale retrieval datasets; for example, the BGE collection contains 1.6 million query-passage pairs sourced f…
BrowseComp-Plus: A More Fair and Transparent Evaluation Benchmark of Deep-Research Agent
Zijian Chen, Xueguang Ma, Shengyao Zhuang +17
Deep-Research agents, which integrate large language models (LLMs) with search tools, have shown success in improving the effectiveness of handling complex queries that require ite…
MAGMaR Shared Task System Description: Video Retrieval with OmniEmbed
Jiaqi Samantha Zhan, Crystina Zhang, Shengyao Zhuang +2
Effective video retrieval remains challenging due to the complexity of integrating visual, auditory, and textual modalities. In this paper, we explore unified retrieval methods usi…
General-Reasoner: Advancing LLM Reasoning Across All Domains
Xueguang Ma, Qian Liu, Dongfu Jiang +3
Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently demonstrated strong potential in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Particularly, the "Zero" reinforceme…