SocialBuddy: Tailoring Search Agent for Social Scenarios

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.01641v2
• Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2026 03:07:37 GMT
• Title: SocialBuddy: Tailoring Search Agent for Social Scenarios
• Abstract summary: SocialBuddy is the first agentic search framework tailored for social scenarios.<n>SocialEnv is the first large-scale simulated environment for social search.<n>SocialPO is a hybrid-granularity optimization framework.
• Score: 7.562006814424155
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: In the era of digital social interaction, searching friends' posts from massive social streams has become a fundamental user need. However, while modern agentic search frameworks have achieved remarkable success in conventional retrieval tasks, they break down when confronted with heterogeneous user queries and multi-dimensional social feeds, resulting in severe performance degradation in complex social search. To bridge this gap, we introduce SocialBuddy, the first agentic search framework tailored for social scenarios. Specifically, we construct SocialEnv, the first large-scale simulated environment for social search. Powered by an automated data and trajectory synthesis pipeline, SocialEnv includes 200K user profiles, 10 million social posts, and 50K reasoning trajectories, establishing a solid foundation for the development of social search agents. To tackle the credit assignment dilemma caused by sparse rewards in social search, we design SocialPO, a hybrid-granularity optimization framework. It macroscopically reinforces successful reasoning paths via multi-dimensional rewards, while microscopically rectifying deviated trajectories through fine-grained prefix truncation and token-level supervision. This hybrid-granularity design delivers multi-scale guidance in complex long-sequence scenarios. Finally, we construct SocialSearch Benchmark to provide a quantitative evaluation scheme for assessing the social search capabilities of SocialBuddy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SocialBuddy-35B surpasses significantly larger frontier LLMs. Code and dataset will be released upon article acceptance.

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