| title | OpenSeeker-v2: Pushing the Limits of Search Agents with Informative and High-Difficulty Trajectories |
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| authors | Yuwen Du, Rui Ye, Shuo Tang, Keduan Huang, Xinyu Zhu, Yuzhu Cai, Siheng Chen |
| date | 2026-05-05 |
| venue | arXiv (preprint, not peer reviewed) |
| id | arXiv:2605.04036 |
| upvotes | 69 (Hugging Face Daily Papers, 2026-11-01) |
| links | abs pdf hf code |
| abstract | Deep search capabilities have become an indispensable competency for frontier Large Language Model (LLM) agents, yet their development remains dominated by industrial giants. The typical industry recipe involves a highly resource-intensive pipeline spanning pre-training, continual pre-training (CPT), supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and reinforcement learning (RL). In this report, we show that when fueled with informative and high-difficulty trajectories, a simple SFT approach could be surprisingly powerful for training frontier search agents. By introducing three simple data synthesis modifications: scaling knowledge graph size for richer exploration, expanding the tool set size for broader functionality, and strict low-step filtering, we establish a stronger baseline. Trained on merely 10.6k data points, our OpenSeeker-v2 achieves state-of-the-art performance across 4 benchmarks (30B-sized agents with ReAct paradigm): 46.0% on BrowseComp, 58.1% on BrowseComp-ZH, 34.6% on Humanity's Last Exam, and 78.0% on xbench, surpassing even Tongyi DeepResearch trained with heavy CPT+SFT+RL pipeline, which achieves 43.4%, 46.7%, 32.9%, and 75.0%, respectively. Notably, OpenSeeker-v2 represents the first state-of-the-art search agent within its model scale and paradigm to be developed by a purely academic team using only SFT. We are excited to open-source the OpenSeeker-v2 model weights and share our simple yet effective findings to make frontier search agent research more accessible to the community. |
cite
@misc{du2026openseeker,
title={OpenSeeker-v2: Pushing the Limits of Search Agents with Informative and High-Difficulty Trajectories},
author={Yuwen Du and Rui Ye and Shuo Tang and Keduan Huang and Xinyu Zhu and Yuzhu Cai and Siheng Chen},
year={2026},
eprint={2605.04036},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04036}
}