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Iris search agents achieve SOTA open-source results on web benchmarks · 2 sources tracked

Researchers have developed two large-scale search agents, Iris-mini and Iris-pro, trained at 35B and 397B parameters respectively. These agents utilize a novel data pipeline and training methodology that combines supervised fine-tuning with reinforcement learning against live search. The models achieved state-of-the-art results among open-source search agents on complex web benchmarks like BrowseComp and DeepSearchQA, particularly when employing advanced context management techniques. AI

IMPACT Sets new SOTA for open-source search agents, potentially influencing future web navigation and information retrieval technologies.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a research paper detailing new AI models and their performance on benchmarks.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ziyuan Liu, Hengqi Liu, Zichuan Wang, Yang Qin, Jiachen Liang, Xu Chu, Shaowei Chen, Yuantao Gu, Mu Chuan ·

    Iris: Climbing to the Search Frontier

    arXiv:2609.04304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two search agents trained at the 35B-A3B and 397B-A17B scales, together with the data pipeline and training recipe behind them. Tasks are reverse-constructed from the hyperlink structure of a web c…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Iris: Climbing to the Search Frontier

    Two large-scale search agents are trained via a multi-stage pipeline combining supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning against live search, achieving state-of-the-art open-source results on complex web benchmarks through rigorous trajectory filtering and inference-time …