The authors first analyzed trajectories of standard query-based agents on the BrowseComp-Plus benchmark, finding that supporting passages can be retrieved but never appear in the agent's observations.
Agent control over candidate processing improves search agent performance
Programmatic Search Agent outperforms query-only agents by extending agentic search to processing and presenting retrieved evidence
Chinese Tech
Jiaming Qian · Huiyan Yang · Mandi Liu · Jie Liu · Wenkai Shen · Pengyang Zhou · +4 more
Zhejiang University · Yuanbao Team, Tencent · Peking University
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A team from Zhejiang University, Tencent, and Peking University introduces Programmatic Search Agent (PSA), which gives agents control over how retrieved candidates are processed and presented, not just query reformulation.
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From Yuanbao Team, Tencent and 2 others
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Programmatic Search Agents improve search by letting agents control how retrieved candidates are processed and presented.
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