WebResearcher: Unleashing unbounded reasoning capability in Long-Horizon Agents

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13309v2
• Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:27:52 GMT
• Title: WebResearcher: Unleashing unbounded reasoning capability in Long-Horizon Agents
• Authors: Zile Qiao, Guoxin Chen, Xuanzhong Chen, Donglei Yu, Wenbiao Yin, Xinyu Wang, Zhen Zhang, Baixuan Li, Huifeng Yin, Kuan Li, Rui Min, Minpeng Liao, Yong Jiang, Pengjun Xie, Fei Huang, Jingren Zhou,
• Abstract summary: WebResearcher is an iterative deep-research paradigm that reformulates deep research as a Markov Decision Process.<n>WebResearcher achieves state-of-the-art performance, even surpassing frontier proprietary systems.
• Score: 72.28593628378991
• License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances in deep-research systems have demonstrated the potential for AI agents to autonomously discover and synthesize knowledge from external sources. In this paper, we introduce WebResearcher, a novel framework for building such agents through two key components: (1) WebResearcher, an iterative deep-research paradigm that reformulates deep research as a Markov Decision Process, where agents periodically consolidate findings into evolving reports while maintaining focused workspaces, overcoming the context suffocation and noise contamination that plague existing mono-contextual approaches; and (2) WebFrontier, a scalable data synthesis engine that generates high-quality training data through tool-augmented complexity escalation, enabling systematic creation of research tasks that bridge the gap between passive knowledge recall and active knowledge construction. Notably, we find that the training data from our paradigm significantly enhances tool-use capabilities even for traditional mono-contextual methods. Furthermore, our paradigm naturally scales through parallel thinking, enabling concurrent multi-agent exploration for more comprehensive conclusions. Extensive experiments across 6 challenging benchmarks demonstrate that WebResearcher achieves state-of-the-art performance, even surpassing frontier proprietary systems.

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