# Self-evolving search agents

Area: [Synthetic data and self-improvement for LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/synth/index.md). HTML: https://mlsanity.com/synth/self-evolving-search-agents/

## Key facts

- Self-evolving search agents: 23 papers on arXiv since 2024 (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- 4 of its 23 mapped papers (17%) cite “EvolveSearch: An Iterative Self-Evolving Search Agent” (2025, arXiv 2505.22501).
- 2 of its 23 mapped papers (9%) cite “Dr. Zero: Self-Evolving Search Agents without Training Data” (2026, arXiv 2601.07055).
- 3 new papers 17 Sep–14 Oct.

## Most cited here

- [EvolveSearch: An Iterative Self-Evolving Search Agent](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.22501/) (2025), cited by 4 papers here
- [Dr. Zero: Self-Evolving Search Agents without Training Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.07055/) (2026), cited by 2 papers here
- [Repurposing Synthetic Data for Fine-grained Search Agent Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.24694/) (2025), cited by 1 papers here

## New (17 Sep–14 Oct)

- [Breaking Babel: A Self-Evolving Multi-Agent System for Long-Form Subtitle Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.38660/) (2026-10-01)
- [GraphCert: Bootstrap Agentic Graph Reasoning with Certified Evidence Rubrics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.38798/) (2026-09-30)
- [Self-Evolving Search Index](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.19656/) (2026-09-17)