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New benchmark ScholarQuest evaluates AI academic paper search agents

Researchers have introduced ScholarQuest, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the performance of AI agents in academic paper search. This benchmark is built upon over 1,000 computer science topics and four distinct research intents, aiming to provide a more realistic and systematic assessment than existing methods. Initial benchmarking reveals that while agentic approaches outperform traditional single-shot retrieval, there is significant room for improvement in their effectiveness, with current top agents achieving limited recall rates. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could accelerate the development of more effective AI-powered academic search tools.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new benchmark for evaluating AI agents, presented in an academic paper. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New benchmark ScholarQuest evaluates AI academic paper search agents

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Enhong Chen ·

    ScholarQuest: A Taxonomy-Guided Benchmark for Agentic Academic Paper Search in Open Literature Environments

    Academic paper search is a core step in scientific research, and LLM-based search agents are emerging as a promising paradigm for iterative, intent-driven literature exploration. However, existing benchmarks are insufficient for systematically evaluating agentic academic search u…