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ARXIV:2603.28376 · RESEARCH AGENTS · SUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:18 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.28376RESEARCH AGENTSSUBMITTED 31 MAR · 20:18 UTCFRESHNESS STALEBin Zhu · Qianghuai Jia · Tian Lan · Junyang Ren · Feng Gu · Feihu Jiang · +3 at arXiv
A deep research agent that significantly improves performance on complex tasks by integrating verification mechanisms throughout its design, outperforming larger models within budget constraints.
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A deep research agent that significantly improves performance on complex tasks by integrating verification mechanisms throughout its design, outperforming larger models within budget constraints. To sustain this capability on long-horizon tasks, reliable verification is…
Deep research agents autonomously conduct open-ended investigations, integrating complex information retrieval with multi-step reasoning across diverse sources to solve real-world problems. To sustain this capability on long-horizon tasks, reliable verification is critical during both…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. To address this, we present Marco DeepResearch, a deep research agent optimized with a verification-centric framework design at three levels: \textbf{(1)~QA Data Synthesis:} We…
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.28376A deep research agent that significantly improves performance on complex tasks by integrating verification mechanisms throughout its design, outperforming larger models within budget constraints.
Abstract
Deep research agents autonomously conduct open-ended investigations, integrating complex information retrieval with multi-step reasoning across diverse sources to solve real-world problems. To sustain this capability on long-horizon tasks, reliable verification is critical during both training and inference. A major bottleneck in existing paradigms stems from the lack of explicit verification mechanisms in QA data synthesis, trajectory construction, and test-time scaling. Errors introduced at each stage propagate downstream and degrade the overall agent performance. To address this, we present Marco DeepResearch, a deep research agent optimized with a verification-centric framework design at three levels: \textbf{(1)~QA Data Synthesis:} We introduce verification mechanisms to graph-based and agent-based QA synthesis to control question difficulty while ensuring answers are unique and correct; \textbf{(2)~Trajectory Construction:} We design a verification-driven trajectory synthesis method that injects explicit verification patterns into training trajectories; and \textbf{(3)~Test-time scaling:} We use Marco DeepResearch itself as a verifier at inference time and effectively improve performance on challenging questions. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our proposed Marco DeepResearch agent significantly outperforms 8B-scale deep research agents on most challenging benchmarks, such as BrowseComp and BrowseComp-ZH. Crucially, under a maximum budget of 600 tool calls, Marco DeepResearch even surpasses or approaches several 30B-scale agents, like Tongyi DeepResearch-30B.
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A deep research agent that significantly improves performance on complex tasks by integrating verification mechanisms throughout its design, outperforming larger models within budget constraints. To sustain this capability on long-horizon tasks, reliable verification is critical...
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Deep research agents autonomously conduct open-ended investigations, integrating complex information retrieval with multi-step reasoning across diverse sources to solve real-world problems. To sustain this capability on long-horizon tasks, reliable verification is critical durin...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. To address this, we present Marco DeepResearch, a deep research agent optimized with a verification-centric framework design at three levels: \textbf{(1)~QA Data Synthesis:} We introduce verification mech...
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Research Agents moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
Marco DeepResearch significantly outperforms 8B-scale deep research agents on most challenging benchmarks, such as BrowseComp and BrowseComp-ZH.
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under a maximum budget of 600 tool calls, Marco DeepResearch even surpasses or approaches several 30B-scale agents, like Tongyi DeepResearch-30B.
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We introduce verification mechanisms to graph-based and agent-based QA synthesis to control question difficulty while ensuring answers are unique and correct
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We design a verification-driven trajectory synthesis method that injects explicit verification patterns into training trajectories
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We use Marco DeepResearch itself as a verifier at inference time and effectively improve performance on challenging questions.
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these frameworks share a critical limitation: the absence of explicit verification during interactions
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Our data is consistently shifted toward longer outputs and more tool interactions.
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category on exploration-heavy tasks, including BrowseComp (31.4), BrowseComp-ZH (47.1), Web-WalkerQA (69.6), and xBench-DeepSearch (82.0 on the 2505 split)
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