Herremans, Dorien

Demystifying deep search: a holistic evaluation with hint-free multi-hop questions and factorised metrics

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems and web agents are increasingly evaluated on multi-hop deep search tasks, yet current practice suffers from two major limitations. First, most benchmarks leak the reasoning path in the question text, allowing …