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A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 22 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.05668.

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AgentScope 1.0: A Developer-Centric Framework for Building Agentic Applications cites this paper.

AgentScope 1.0: A Developer-Centric Framework for Building Agentic Applications A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 108

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Erase to Improve: Erasable Reinforcement Learning for Search-Augmented LLMs cites this paper.

Erase to Improve: Erasable Reinforcement Learning for Search-Augmented LLMs A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 9

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ToolPRM: Fine-Grained Inference Scaling of Structured Outputs for Function Calling cites this paper.

ToolPRM: Fine-Grained Inference Scaling of Structured Outputs for Function Calling A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 45

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Rerank Before You Reason: Analyzing Reranking Tradeoffs through Effective Token Cost in Deep Search Agents cites this paper.

Rerank Before You Reason: Analyzing Reranking Tradeoffs through Effective Token Cost in Deep Search Agents A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 13

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Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tool Descriptions Are Smelly! Towards Improving AI Agent Efficiency with Augmented MCP Tool Descriptions cites this paper.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) Tool Descriptions Are Smelly! Towards Improving AI Agent Efficiency with Augmented MCP Tool Descriptions A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 108

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Learning to Retrieve from Agent Trajectories cites this paper.

Learning to Retrieve from Agent Trajectories A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 17

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Towards Trustworthy Report Generation: A Deep Research Agent with Progressive Confidence Estimation and Calibration cites this paper.

Towards Trustworthy Report Generation: A Deep Research Agent with Progressive Confidence Estimation and Calibration A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 23

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Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering cites this paper.

Externalization in LLM Agents: A Unified Review of Memory, Skills, Protocols and Harness Engineering A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 162

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Towards Long-horizon Agentic Multimodal Search cites this paper.

Towards Long-horizon Agentic Multimodal Search A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 31

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Rethinking Agentic Reinforcement Learning In Large Language Models cites this paper.

Rethinking Agentic Reinforcement Learning In Large Language Models A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 103

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Rethinking Agentic Reinforcement Learning In Large Language Models cites this paper.

Rethinking Agentic Reinforcement Learning In Large Language Models A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 103

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Rethinking Agentic Reinforcement Learning In Large Language Models cites this paper.

Rethinking Agentic Reinforcement Learning In Large Language Models A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 103

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SiriusHelper: An LLM Agent-Based Operations Assistant for Big Data Platforms cites this paper.

SiriusHelper: An LLM Agent-Based Operations Assistant for Big Data Platforms A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 29

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Position: Academic Conferences are Potentially Facing Denominator Gaming Caused by Fully Automated Scientific Agents cites this paper.

Position: Academic Conferences are Potentially Facing Denominator Gaming Caused by Fully Automated Scientific Agents A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 27

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DeepRefine: Agent-Compiled Knowledge Refinement via Reinforcement Learning cites this paper.

DeepRefine: Agent-Compiled Knowledge Refinement via Reinforcement Learning A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 25

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Scaling Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Parallel Search and Explicit Merging cites this paper.

Scaling Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Parallel Search and Explicit Merging A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 7

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Skills on the Fly: Test-Time Adaptive Skill Synthesis for LLM Agents cites this paper.

Skills on the Fly: Test-Time Adaptive Skill Synthesis for LLM Agents A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 9

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From Blind Guess to Informed Judgment: Teaching LLMs to Evaluate Materials by Building Knowledge-Augmented Preference Signals cites this paper.

From Blind Guess to Informed Judgment: Teaching LLMs to Evaluate Materials by Building Knowledge-Augmented Preference Signals A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 22

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Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement cites this paper.

Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 18

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VaseMuseum: Digital Intelligent Museum for Ancient Greek Pottery cites this paper.

VaseMuseum: Digital Intelligent Museum for Ancient Greek Pottery A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 16

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Diagnosing Search Behavior and Failure Modes in Long-Horizon Search Agents cites this paper.

Diagnosing Search Behavior and Failure Modes in Long-Horizon Search Agents A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 29

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Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents cites this paper.

Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents A Survey of LLM-based Deep Search Agents: Paradigm, Optimization, Evaluation, and Challenges

Reference 216

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