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OpenSeeker: Democratizing Frontier Search Agents by Fully Open-Sourcing Training Data

arXiv 2603.15594 ↗First posted 16 Mar 2026cs.AI cs.CLcited by 39

On the map: LLM agents and tool use → Web, search, and research agents

Abstract (arXiv)

Deep search capabilities have become an indispensable competency for frontier Large Language Model (LLM) agents, yet the development of high-performance search agents remains dominated by industrial giants due to a lack of transparent, high-quality training data. This persistent data scarcity has fundamentally hindered the progress of the broader research community in developing and innovating within this domain. To bridge this gap, we introduce OpenSeeker, the first fully open-source search agent (i.e., model and data) that achieves frontier-level performance through two core technical innovations: (1) Fact-grounded scalable controllable QA synthesis, which reverse-engineers the web graph via topological expansion and entity obfuscation to generate complex, multi-hop reasoning tasks with controllable coverage and complexity. (2) Denoised trajectory synthesis, which employs a retrospective summarization mechanism to denoise the trajectory, therefore promoting the teacher LLMs to generate high-quality actions. Experimental results demonstrate that OpenSeeker, trained (a single training run) on only 11.7k synthesized samples, achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks including BrowseComp, BrowseComp-ZH, xbench-DeepSearch, and WideSearch. Notably, trained with simple SFT, OpenSeeker significantly outperforms the second-best fully open-source agent DeepDive (e.g., 29.5% v.s. 15.3% on BrowseComp), and even surpasses industrial competitors such as Tongyi DeepResearch (trained via extensive continual pre-training, SFT, and RL) on BrowseComp-ZH (48.4% v.s. 46.7%). We fully open-source the complete training dataset and the model weights to democratize frontier search agent research and foster a more transparent, collaborative ecosystem.

Key facts. Cited by 39 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Web, search, and research agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use. Builds on 20 of its 29 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 16 Mar 2026.

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  1. 2026REDSearcher: A Scalable and Cost-Efficient Framework for Long-Horizon Search Agents15 Feb
  2. 2025MiroThinker: Pushing the Performance Boundaries of Open-Source Research Agents via Model, Context, and Interactive Scaling14 Nov
  3. 2025Tongyi DeepResearch Technical Report28 Oct
  4. 2025WebSailor-V2: Bridging the Chasm to Proprietary Agents via Synthetic Data and Scalable Reinforcement Learning16 Sep
  5. 2025DeepDive: Advancing Deep Search Agents with Knowledge Graphs and Multi-Turn RL12 Sep
  6. 2025WideSearch: Benchmarking Agentic Broad Info-Seeking11 Aug
  7. 2025WebSailor: Navigating Super-human Reasoning for Web Agent3 Jul
  8. 2025WebDancer: Towards Autonomous Information Seeking Agency28 May

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  1. 2025Qwen3 Technical Reportcited by 8,820
  2. 2022ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Modelscited by 8,695
  3. 2025OpenAI GPT-5 System Cardcited by 989
  4. 2025DeepSeek-V3.2: Pushing the Frontier of Open Large Language Modelscited by 815
  5. 2025BrowseComp: A Simple Yet Challenging Benchmark for Browsing Agentscited by 647
  6. 2026GLM-5: from Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineeringcited by 587
  7. 2026Kimi K2.5: Visual Agentic Intelligencecited by 501
  8. 2025GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Modelscited by 467
  9. 2025BrowseComp-ZH: Benchmarking Web Browsing Ability of Large Language Models in Chinesecited by 145
  10. 2025AgentFold: Long-Horizon Web Agents with Proactive Context Managementcited by 103
  11. 2025Scaling Agents via Continual Pre-trainingcited by 40
  12. 2025WebLeaper: Empowering Efficiency and Efficacy in WebAgent via Enabling Info-Rich Seekingcited by 18

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  1. 2026Marco DeepResearch: Unlocking Efficient Deep Research Agents via Verification-Centric Designcited by 16
  2. 2026LongSeeker: Elastic Context Orchestration for Long-Horizon Search Agentscited by 10
  3. 2026SAM: State-Adaptive Memory for Long-Horizon Reasoning Agentcited by 10
  4. 2026OpenSeeker-v2: Pushing the Limits of Search Agents with Informative and High-Difficulty Trajectoriescited by 8
  5. 2026Agentic Environment Engineering for Large Language Models: A Survey of Environment Modeling, Synthesis, Evaluation, and Applicationcited by 8
  6. 2026FORT-Searcher: Synthesizing Shortcut-Resistant Search Tasks for Training Deep Search Agentscited by 7
  7. 2026MiroEval: Benchmarking Multimodal Deep Research Agents in Process and Outcomecited by 6
  8. 2026PBSD: Privileged Bayesian Self-Distillation for Long-Horizon Credit Assignmentcited by 6
  9. 2026DR-Venus: Towards Frontier Edge-Scale Deep Research Agents with Only 10K Open Datacited by 5
  10. 2026Dr-DCI: Scaling Direct Corpus Interaction via Dynamic Workspace Expansioncited by 5
  11. 2026S1-DeepResearch: Beyond Search, Toward Real-World Long-Horizon Research Agentscited by 5
  12. 2026SearchSwarm: Towards Delegation Intelligence in Agentic LLMs for Long-Horizon Deep Researchcited by 3
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  2. 2026SearchArt: Training Long-Horizon Search Agent with Scalable Synthetic and Verified Taskcited by 3
  3. 2026ABSeeker: Training Long-Horizon Search Agents via Answer-Backtracked Credit Assignmentcited by 3
  4. 2026DuMate-DeepResearch: An Auditable Multi-Agent System with Recursive Search and Rubric-Grounded Reasoningcited by 2
  5. 2026SimpleSearch-VL: A Simple Recipe for Multimodal Agentic Deep Searchcited by 2
  6. 2026Diagnosing Search Behavior and Failure Modes in Long-Horizon Search Agentscited by 2
  7. 2026SearchAuditor: Auditing and Attributing Failures in Long-Horizon Search Agentscited by 2
  8. 2026ContextPilot: Teaching Agents for Proactive Context Management via Fine-grained RLcited by 2
  9. 2026UNIBROWSE: A Data-to-Agent Framework for Multimodal BrowseCompcited by 1
  10. 2026ToolAnchor: Anchoring Counterfactual Context to Boost Agentic Tool-use Capabilitycited by 1
  11. 2026Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agentscited by 1
  12. 2026Mind DeepResearch Technical Reportcited by 0
  13. 2026BioMedArena: An Open-source Toolkit for Building and Evaluating Biomedical Deep Research Agentscited by 0
  14. 2026SciDataSailor: Deep Scientific Data Exploringcited by 0
  15. 2026G-ReAct: Graph-Guided Deep Search via Structure-State Co-Evolutioncited by 0
  16. 2026Mint-Agent: Introducing Finance-Native Agentic Foundation Modelscited by 0
  17. 2026Iris: Climbing to the Search Frontiercited by 0
  18. 2026Boosting Deepresearch and LongContext Ability with Self-Generated Deepresearch Rollouts Tracescited by 0
  19. 2026Rufus-Air: An Open LLM Post-Training Recipecited by 0
  20. 2026IterSynth: Rethinking Deep Search Agents via Role-Decoupled Iterative Synthesiscited by 0
  21. 2026PrimeSeeker: Capability-Oriented Supervision for Deep Search Agentscited by 0
  22. 2026Text-Centric Post-Training for Omni-Modal Reasoningcited by 0
  23. 2026VideoResearchAgent: Grounded Task Synthesis and Sim-to-Real RL for Open-Web Video Researchcited by 0
  24. 2026LexiHorizon: Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon Deep Searchcited by 0
  25. 2026Avoiding What Your Teacher Already Knows: Entity Familiarity for Deep-Search Distillationcited by 0
  26. 2026HyWe: Unifying Search and Operation for Real-World Hybrid Web Taskscited by 0
  27. 2026Glasseek: A Transparent Recipe for Training and Trustworthy Evaluation of DeepSearch Agentscited by 0

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