IDRBench: Benchmarking the Interactive Capabilities of Deep Research Agents

arXiv:2601.06676 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.HC · Submitted 2026-01-10 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.HC

Submitted: 2026-01-10

Updated: 2026-09-23

Terminology

• Benchmark — 31× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 25× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Robustness — 14× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmarking — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Cognitive Load — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Human-in-the-Loop — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic Search — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Information Gain — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• RAG — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — 1× in this paper · explained in 16 episodes
• Structured Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Open Deep Search: Democratizing Search with Open-source Reasoning Agents
• DeepResearchGym: A Free, Transparent, and Reproducible Evaluation Sandbox for Deep Research
• Gemini 2.5: Pushing the Frontier with Advanced Reasoning, Multimodality, Long Context, and Next Generation Agentic Capabilities
• DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Models
• DeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research Agents
• Ask or Assume? Uncertainty-Aware Clarification-Seeking in Coding Agents
• Towards Asking Clarification Questions for Information Seeking on Task-Oriented Dialogues
• An Interactive Paradigm for Deep Research
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey
• BrowseComp: A Simple Yet Challenging Benchmark for Browsing Agents
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Interaction-Driven Browsing: A Human-in-the-Loop Conceptual Framework Informed by Human Web Browsing for Browser-Using Agents
• Retrieval-Augmented Generation for AI-Generated Content: A Survey
• BrowseComp-ZH: Benchmarking Web Browsing Ability of Large Language Models in Chinese
• Trustworthiness in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems: A Survey

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