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About this paper

Jiarui Jin, Zexuan Yan, Shijian Wang, Wenxiang Jiao, Yuan Lu

Researchers at Xiaohongshu Inc. developed AgentDisCo, a deep research agent framework that disentangles information exploration and exploitation into adversarial yet collaborative agents, enhancing iterative refinement. The system, featuring a meta-optimization harness for self-evolving strategies and a new lifestyle-oriented GALA benchmark, demonstrated consistent performance gains across multiple benchmarks and improved citation accuracy to 89.06%.

Key insights

  • Disentangling information exploration and exploitation into distinct, adversarially-collaborative agents can significantly improve the flexibility, stability, and incremental refinement capabilities of deep research systems.
  • Automated meta-optimization through a self-evolving harness can systematically discover and refine agentic design strategies, leading to more robust and controllable agent execution without extensive human intervention.
  • Developing benchmarks derived from authentic, lifestyle-oriented user data, such as the GALA benchmark, is essential for advancing deep research agents that are genuinely applicable and performant for real-world information-seeking behaviors.

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