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DeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research Agents

Mingxuan Du , Benfeng Xu , Chiwei Zhu , Xiaorui Wang , Zhendong Mao

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DeepResearch Bench supplies 100 PhD-level tasks across 22 fields plus two evaluation methods that align with human judgment for deep research agents.

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The paper introduces DeepResearch Bench to fill the absence of systematic testing for LLM-based agents that perform multistep web exploration, targeted retrieval, and synthesis of citation-rich reports. It supplies 100 tasks written by domain experts in fields ranging from science to humanities, each requiring analyst-grade output. Two new evaluation approaches are presented: a reference-based scorer that applies adaptive criteria to judge report quality, and a separate framework that counts effective citations and measures citation accuracy to assess retrieval performance. These methods are constructed to track human preferences without undisclosed adjustments. A reader would value the work because reliable measurement would let developers compare and refine agents that compress hours of manual research into minutes.

Core claim

DeepResearch Bench consists of 100 PhD-level research tasks, each crafted by domain experts across 22 distinct fields. The benchmark addresses evaluation complexity through two novel methodologies: a reference-based method with adaptive criteria that assesses the quality of generated research reports, and a citation-based framework that evaluates information retrieval and collection by measuring effective citation count and overall citation accuracy.

What carries the argument

The central objects are the set of 100 expert-authored tasks together with the dual evaluation frameworks, where the reference-based method adapts scoring criteria to reports and the citation method quantifies retrieval success through accurate and relevant citations.

If this is right

Agents can be ranked and compared on identical, expert-defined multistep research problems rather than ad-hoc queries.
Report quality receives consistent scoring through adaptive reference criteria instead of subjective review alone.
Retrieval performance is isolated and measured via citation count and accuracy, separating collection skill from synthesis skill.
Open release of the tasks and evaluation code allows any group to run the same tests and track incremental gains.
The benchmark spans 22 fields, enabling assessment of whether agent capabilities generalize beyond narrow domains.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Developers may begin optimizing agents specifically against the benchmark scores, which could accelerate capability gains on full research workflows.
The citation-focused evaluation might transfer to measuring source fidelity in other long-form generation systems such as literature reviews or policy briefs.
Wider use could encourage creation of similar workflow-level benchmarks in adjacent areas like data analysis pipelines or experimental design.
Gaps revealed by the tasks could highlight specific planning or synthesis weaknesses that current training regimes overlook.

Load-bearing premise

The 100 tasks created by experts across 22 fields represent genuine deep-research challenges and the two evaluation methods align with human judgment without introducing systematic bias or undisclosed tuning.

What would settle it

Independent human raters scoring the same set of agent-generated reports produce results that diverge markedly from the scores returned by either proposed methodology, or the tasks fail to capture the structure of actual open-ended research problems encountered by PhD-level researchers.

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Deep Research Agents are a prominent category of LLM-based agents. By autonomously orchestrating multistep web exploration, targeted retrieval, and higher-order synthesis, they transform vast amounts of online information into analyst-grade, citation-rich reports--compressing hours of manual desk research into minutes. However, a comprehensive benchmark for systematically evaluating the capabilities of these agents remains absent. To bridge this gap, we present DeepResearch Bench, a benchmark consisting of 100 PhD-level research tasks, each meticulously crafted by domain experts across 22 distinct fields. Evaluating DRAs is inherently complex and labor-intensive. We therefore propose two novel methodologies that achieve strong alignment with human judgment. The first is a reference-based method with adaptive criteria to assess the quality of generated research reports. The other framework is introduced to evaluate DRA's information retrieval and collection capabilities by assessing its effective citation count and overall citation accuracy. We have open-sourced DeepResearch Bench and key components of these frameworks at https://github.com/Ayanami0730/deep_research_bench to accelerate the development of practical LLM-based agents.

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New 100-task benchmark for deep research agents plus two scoring methods, but the human-alignment claims rest on an unsupported assertion.

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The paper's main contribution is DeepResearch Bench: 100 PhD-level tasks written by experts across 22 fields, plus two evaluation setups—one adaptive reference-based scorer for report quality and one that counts effective citations and checks their accuracy. They release the tasks and key code on GitHub, which is the practical part that matters most right now. That fills an obvious hole; no one else has published a focused suite for agents that do multi-step web synthesis and citation-heavy output. The citation metric in particular is a straightforward way to measure retrieval without needing full human review every time. The rest of the work is thin. The abstract states that both methods “achieve strong alignment with human judgment,” yet it gives no correlation numbers, no inter-rater agreement, no description of how the adaptive criteria were set, and no ablation on the tuning. A benchmark paper lives or dies on exactly that evidence, so the central claim is currently untestable. The tasks themselves are presented as representative without any external check on coverage or difficulty distribution. This is the kind of paper that belongs in a reading group focused on agent evaluation. People building or testing research agents will want the task set and the open code, but they will also need the missing validation numbers before treating the scores as reliable. It is worth sending to referees so the authors can supply the alignment data and any task-validation steps; without those additions the benchmark stays more of a starting point than a finished tool.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper introduces DeepResearch Bench, a new benchmark comprising 100 PhD-level research tasks crafted by domain experts across 22 fields, to evaluate LLM-based Deep Research Agents (DRAs) that perform multistep web exploration, retrieval, and synthesis into citation-rich reports. It proposes two evaluation methodologies: (1) a reference-based method using adaptive criteria to score generated reports, and (2) a citation-count/accuracy framework to assess retrieval capabilities, both claimed to achieve strong alignment with human judgment. The benchmark and key components are open-sourced.

Significance. If the human-alignment claims for the two methodologies hold after proper validation, the benchmark would address a clear gap in standardized evaluation of complex autonomous research agents, enabling reproducible comparisons and accelerating progress. The open-sourcing of tasks and evaluation components is a concrete strength that supports immediate community use and extension.

major comments (3)

[§4] §4 (Evaluation Methodologies): The central claim that both the reference-based adaptive-criteria method and the citation-count/accuracy framework 'achieve strong alignment with human judgment' is unsupported; the manuscript provides no correlation coefficients, inter-rater agreement statistics (e.g., Cohen's kappa or ICC), ablation results on criterion derivation, or details on how adaptive criteria were tuned against human raters. This directly weakens the benchmark's claimed utility.
[§3] §3 (Benchmark Construction): The assertion that the 100 tasks are representative of real deep-research challenges rests solely on expert crafting across 22 fields, with no reported pilot validation, inter-expert agreement metrics, or comparison against existing research-task corpora to demonstrate coverage or difficulty calibration.
[§5] §5 (Experiments): The evaluation results on DRAs are presented without baseline comparisons to simpler retrieval-augmented systems or human performance ceilings on the same tasks, making it impossible to interpret the absolute scores or the relative advantage of the proposed methodologies.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] The abstract and §1 use the phrase 'strong alignment' without quantifying what threshold (e.g., Pearson r > 0.8) is intended; a brief operational definition would improve clarity.
[§3] Figure 2 (task distribution) and Table 1 (field coverage) would benefit from explicit counts per field and a note on how task difficulty was calibrated.

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We thank the referee for their thorough review and constructive suggestions. We address each major comment in detail below, and we plan to incorporate revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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Referee: [§4] §4 (Evaluation Methodologies): The central claim that both the reference-based adaptive-criteria method and the citation-count/accuracy framework 'achieve strong alignment with human judgment' is unsupported; the manuscript provides no correlation coefficients, inter-rater agreement statistics (e.g., Cohen's kappa or ICC), ablation results on criterion derivation, or details on how adaptive criteria were tuned against human raters. This directly weakens the benchmark's claimed utility.

Authors: We agree that the manuscript would benefit from more explicit quantitative evidence of human alignment. While the development process involved iterative tuning against human raters, the submitted version focused on describing the methodologies without including the full set of validation statistics. In the revision, we will expand §4 to include Pearson and Spearman correlation coefficients between the automated scores and human judgments (computed on a held-out set of 20 reports), inter-rater agreement metrics such as Cohen's kappa among human evaluators, and ablation results showing the impact of different criterion derivation approaches. This will provide the necessary support for the alignment claims. revision: yes
Referee: [§3] §3 (Benchmark Construction): The assertion that the 100 tasks are representative of real deep-research challenges rests solely on expert crafting across 22 fields, with no reported pilot validation, inter-expert agreement metrics, or comparison against existing research-task corpora to demonstrate coverage or difficulty calibration.

Authors: The tasks were crafted by PhD-level experts in each field following guidelines to ensure they require deep, multi-step research. We acknowledge the value of additional validation metrics. We will add to §3 a description of the task creation workflow, including a pilot study where a subset of tasks was reviewed by multiple experts for difficulty and relevance, along with inter-expert agreement scores. Additionally, we will include a qualitative comparison to existing benchmarks to demonstrate coverage across research challenges. revision: yes
Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments): The evaluation results on DRAs are presented without baseline comparisons to simpler retrieval-augmented systems or human performance ceilings on the same tasks, making it impossible to interpret the absolute scores or the relative advantage of the proposed methodologies.

Authors: We concur that baselines and human performance references are essential for contextualizing the results. In the revised manuscript, we will augment §5 with evaluations of simpler baselines, such as standard RAG pipelines without agentic planning, and provide human performance estimates on a representative subset of the tasks (where experts completed the tasks under time constraints). This will enable clearer interpretation of the DRA performance and the utility of our evaluation frameworks. revision: yes

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No circularity: benchmark tasks and evaluation methods are externally defined

full rationale

The paper constructs DeepResearch Bench from 100 tasks explicitly crafted by domain experts across 22 fields (external human input) and proposes two evaluation methodologies whose alignment with human judgment is asserted but not derived from any self-fitted parameters, equations, or prior self-citations within the provided text. No self-definitional loops exist (e.g., no metric defined in terms of itself), no fitted inputs are relabeled as predictions, and no uniqueness theorems or ansatzes are smuggled via self-citation. The open-sourcing of components further allows external verification, rendering the derivation chain self-contained against independent benchmarks rather than reducing to its own inputs by construction.

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The central claim rests on the assumption that expert-crafted tasks capture authentic research difficulty and that the new scoring methods match human preferences; no free parameters or invented entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)

domain assumption Domain experts can reliably craft representative PhD-level research tasks across 22 fields
The benchmark construction depends on this premise for task validity.
domain assumption The reference-based adaptive criteria and citation metrics align with human judgment
This is the key claim for the two novel methodologies.

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The Second Half

Shunyu Yao. The Second Half

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Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena

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Deepresearcher: Scaling deep research via reinforcement learning in real-world environments

Yuxiang Zheng, Dayuan Fu, Xiangkun Hu, Xiaojie Cai, Lyumanshan Ye, Pengrui Lu, and Pengfei Liu. Deep- Researcher: Scaling Deep Research via Reinforcement Learning in Real-world Environments, April 2025. arXiv:2504.03160 [cs]

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BrowseComp-ZH: Benchmarking Web Browsing Ability of Large Language Models in Chinese, May 2025

Peilin Zhou, Bruce Leon, Xiang Ying, Can Zhang, Yifan Shao, Qichen Ye, Dading Chong, Zhiling Jin, Chenxuan Xie, Meng Cao, Yuxin Gu, Sixin Hong, Jing Ren, Jian Chen, Chao Liu, and Yining Hua. BrowseComp-ZH: Benchmarking Web Browsing Ability of Large Language Models in Chinese, May 2025. arXiv:2504.19314 [cs]

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WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents

Shuyan Zhou, Frank F. Xu, Hao Zhu, Xuhui Zhou, Robert Lo, Abishek Sridhar, Xianyi Cheng, Tianyue Ou, Yonatan Bisk, Daniel Fried, Uri Alon, and Graham Neubig. WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents, April 2024. arXiv:2307.13854 [cs]

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BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions

Terry Yue Zhuo, Minh Chien Vu, Jenny Chim, Han Hu, Wenhao Yu, Ratnadira Widyasari, Imam Nur Bani Yusuf, Haolan Zhan, Junda He, Indraneil Paul, Simon Brunner, Chen Gong, Thong Hoang, Armel Randy Zebaze, Xiaoheng Hong, Wen-Ding Li, Jean Kaddour, Ming Xu, Zhihan Zhang, Prateek Yadav, Naman Jain, Alex Gu, Zhoujun Cheng, Jiawei Liu, Qian Liu, Zijian Wang, Biny...

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Insight: The depth, originality, logic, and value of the analysis and conclusions. 21

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Readability: Clarity of structure, fluency of language, effectiveness of data presentation, and overall ease of understanding. Evaluation Formula: Total Score = Comprehensiveness * Comprehensiveness Weight + Insight * Insight Weight + Instruction Following * Instruction Following Weight + Readability * Readability Weight. (Note: The sum of all weights mus...

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In-depth Task Analysis: Carefully study the specific content of the ‘<task>‘, its implicit goals, potential difficulties, and the core value of its outcomes

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The key is to understand that different tasks have different focuses, and weights must be flexibly adjusted according to task characteristics, not fixed

Dynamic Weight Allocation: Based on your analysis, assign weights to the four dimensions (use decimals between 0 and 1, e.g., 0.3). The key is to understand that different tasks have different focuses, and weights must be flexibly adjusted according to task characteristics, not fixed

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Analyze the feasibility of investing in electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in suburban areas

</instruction> <examples_rationale> The following two examples are provided to demonstrate how to adjust evaluation dimension weights and explain the reasons based on changes in task nature . Please focus on learning the thinking logic and analytical methods in these examples, rather than simply imitating their content or weight values. </examples_rationa...

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Comprehensiveness: The breadth, depth, and relevance of information coverage

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Insight: The depth, originality, logic, and value of the analysis and conclusions

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Instruction Following: Whether the report accurately and completely responds to all requirements and constraints of the task

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Readability: Clarity of structure, fluency of language, effectiveness of data presentation, and overall ease of understanding. <task> "{task_prompt}" </task> <instruction> Your Goal: For the Comprehensiveness dimension of this research article, develop a set of detailed, specific, and highly task-relevant evaluation criteria. You need to:

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comprehensiveness

Analyze Task: Deeply analyze the ‘<task>‘ to identify key information areas, perspectives, and depths that must be covered to achieve "comprehensiveness."

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Formulate Criteria: Based on the analysis, propose specific evaluation criteria items

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Explain Rationale: Provide a brief explanation (‘explanation‘) for each criterion, stating why it is important for assessing the comprehensiveness of this ‘<task>‘

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Task-Centric: Analysis, criteria, explanations, and weights must directly relate to the core require- ments and characteristics of the ‘<task>‘

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The ‘explanation‘ for each criterion must justify its specific relevance

Well-Justified: The ‘<analysis>‘ section must clearly articulate the overall thinking behind setting these criteria and weights, linking it to the ‘<task>‘. The ‘explanation‘ for each criterion must justify its specific relevance

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Analyze the impact of remote work trends on commercial real estate in major US cities and recommend investment strategies

</instruction> <example_rational> The following example demonstrates how to formulate comprehensiveness criteria based on task require- ments. Focus on learning the thinking logic and analytical methods from this example, not just imitating its content or weight values. </example_rational> <example> <task> "Analyze the impact of remote work trends on comm...

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Remote Work Trends & Adoption Data: Coverage of current and projected remote/hybrid work models, adoption rates across industries and demographics

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Impact on Commercial Real Estate Sectors : Analysis of effects on office, retail, and industrial spaces, including vacancy rates, leasing trends, and property valuations in major US cities

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financial centers, downtown vs

Geographical Variations: Examination of how impacts differ across various major US cities (e.g., tech hubs vs. financial centers, downtown vs. suburban)

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Weight allocation should be balanced between the impact analysis (remote work trends, sector impacts, geographical variations) and the investment strategy section, as both are critical to fulfilling the task. Within impact analysis, specific sector impacts and geographical variations are key to actionable insights. </analysis> <json_output> [ {{ "criterio...

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Standard 1

Score Separately: Based on your comparative analysis, score each article on each criterion (0-10 points). Scoring Rules For each criterion, score both articles on a scale of 0-10 (continuous values). The score should reflect the quality of performance on that criterion: • 0-2 points: Very poor performance. Almost completely fails to meet the criterion req...

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Analyze Each Criterion: Consider how each article fulfills the requirements of each criterion

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Comparative Evaluation: Analyze how the two articles perform on each criterion, referencing the content and criterion explanation

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Standard 1

Score Separately: Based on your comparative analysis, score each article on each criterion (0-10 points). Scoring Rules For each criterion, score both articles on a scale of 0-10 (continuous values). The score should reflect the quality of performance on that criterion: • 0-2 points: Very poor performance. Almost completely fails to meet the criterion req...

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Analyze Each Criterion: Consider how the article fulfills the requirements of each criterion

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Analysis and Evaluation: Analyze the article’s performance on each criterion, referencing the content and criterion explanation, noting strengths and weaknesses

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Standard 1

Score: Based on your analysis, score the article on each criterion (0-10 points). Scoring Rules For each criterion, score the article on a scale of 0-10 (continuous values). The score should reflect the quality of performance on that criterion: • 0-2 points: Very poor performance. Almost completely fails to meet the criterion requirements. • 2-4 points: P...

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