AREX: Towards a Recursively Self-Improving Agent for Deep Research
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arXiv:2607.21461v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep research requires agents to find answers that jointly satisfy multiple constraints. Discovering such answers is costly, whereas verifying a candidate can often be decomposed into tractable constraint-wise checks. This discovery--verification asymmetry suggests that a research agent should do more than simply search longer: it should recursively improve its current answer by verifying intermediate results and using the partially verified state to guide subsequent refinement. We introduce AREX, a family of Recursively Self-Improving (RSI)
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2607.21461v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep research requires agents to find answers that jointly satisfy multiple constraints.
- Discovering such answers is costly, whereas verifying a candidate can often be decomposed into tractable constraint-wise checks.
- This discovery--verification asymmetry suggests that a research agent should do more than simply search longer: it should recursively improve its current answer by verifying intermediate results and using the partially verified state to guide subsequent refinement.
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