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New method adapts agentic search benchmarks to realistic corpora

Researchers have developed a new method to adapt existing benchmarks for agentic search by projecting them onto larger, more realistic corpora. This approach, demonstrated by adapting the BrowseComp-Plus benchmark to NVIDIA's ClimbMix corpus, shifts the evaluation focus from the retriever to the agent's reasoning capabilities. The process involves decomposing questions into verifiable reasoning hops and ensuring each hop is supported within the new corpus, resulting in a significantly reduced number of grounded questions but a notable decrease in agent accuracy and evidence recall. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Jimmy Lin ·

    Projecting BrowseComp-Plus onto ClimbMix: Toward More Realistic Corpora for Agentic Search

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