Separating planning from synthesis improves long-horizon search agents

IterSynth alternates dedicated planning and evidence-synthesis roles while maintaining a compact evolving summary instead of the full search history.

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Xingyu Wu · Yuchen Yan · Zhengxi Lu · Siqi Chen · Xin ZHANG · Aiting Liu · +6 more

Zhejiang University · Tencent

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The authors built IterSynth around two alternating roles: a Planner that determines what information is still needed, and a Synthesizer that incorporates new evidence into an evolving summary.

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IterSynth separates planning and synthesis in deep search agents using a summary state, outperforming prior small agents.

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