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ProductResearch: Training E-Commerce Deep Research Agents via Multi-Agent Synthetic Trajectory Distillation

arXiv 2602.23716 ↗First posted 27 Feb 2026cs.AIcited by 3

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Social simulation and multi-agent debate

Abstract (arXiv)

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents show promise for e-commerce conversational shopping, yet existing implementations lack the interaction depth and contextual breadth required for complex product research. Meanwhile, the Deep Research paradigm, despite advancing information synthesis in web search, suffers from domain gaps when transferred to e-commerce. We propose ProductResearch, a multi-agent framework that synthesizes high-fidelity, long-horizon tool-use trajectories for training robust e-commerce shopping agents. The framework employs a User Agent to infer nuanced shopping intents from behavioral histories, and a Supervisor Agent that orchestrates iterative collaboration with a Research Agent to generate synthetic trajectories culminating in comprehensive, insightful product research reports. These trajectories are rigorously filtered and distilled through a reflective internalization process that consolidates multi-agent supervisory interactions into coherent single-role training examples, enabling effective fine-tuning of LLM agents for complex shopping inquiries. Extensive experiments show that a compact MoE model fine-tuned on our synthetic data achieves substantial improvements over its base model in response comprehensiveness, research depth, and user-perceived utility, approaching the performance of frontier proprietary deep research systems and establishing multi-agent synthetic trajectory training as an effective and scalable paradigm for enhancing LLM-based shopping assistance.

Key facts. Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Social simulation and multi-agent debate, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 13 of its 69 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 27 Feb 2026.

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  1. 2026ShopSimulator: Evaluating and Exploring RL-Driven LLM Agent for Shopping Assistants26 Jan
  2. 2025ShoppingBench: A Real-World Intent-Grounded Shopping Benchmark for LLM-based Agents6 Aug

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  1. 2025Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learningcited by 1,371
  2. 2022WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agentscited by 1,197
  3. 2025DeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research Agentscited by 236
  4. 2025DR Tulu: Reinforcement Learning with Evolving Rubrics for Deep Researchcited by 98
  5. 2025WebExplorer: Explore and Evolve for Training Long-Horizon Web Agentscited by 86
  6. 2025WebResearcher: Unleashing unbounded reasoning capability in Long-Horizon Agentscited by 66
  7. 2025WebWeaver: Structuring Web-Scale Evidence with Dynamic Outlines for Open-Ended Deep Researchcited by 44
  8. 2024A Multi-Agent Conversational Recommender Systemcited by 42
  9. 2023U-NEED: A Fine-grained Dataset for User Needs-Centric E-commerce Conversational Recommendationcited by 12
  10. 2025Multi-Agent Collaborative Filtering: Orchestrating Users and Items for Agentic Recommendationscited by 10
  11. 2025MindFlow: Revolutionizing E-commerce Customer Support with Multimodal LLM Agentscited by 6

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  6. 2026Shopping Companion: Benchmarking and Training LLM Agents for Long-Horizon Preference-Grounded E-Commerce Tasks
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