Agents learn to reset noisy context during long web searches

Traverse combines self-directed answer criteria, verification, and memory checkpoints with reinforcement learning designed to avoid unstable tool-use training.

Chinese Tech
Jingyuan Ma · Lynx Aster · He Zhang · Siyao Song · Weijie Yuan · Zhe Zhang · +2 more

State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing · Peking University · ByteDance

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Ma et al.

The authors organize web search into three recurring states.

Why this paper

From ByteDance and 2 others · Part of Context Engineering for Agents, now 41 papers

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A rubric-driven search agent with self-managed memory and answer verification reaches 72.83 on BrowseComp and improves across several other search tasks.

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