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IterSynth: Rethinking Deep Search Agents via Role-Decoupled Iterative Synthesis

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TL;DR - IterSynth is a deep-search agent framework that separates planning from evidence synthesis and maintains a compact evolving summary instead of a growing search history. This reduces role coupling and context noise, improving long-horizon search performance across multiple models.

  • Alternates between a Planner that identifies information needs and a Synthesizer that integrates evidence into the persistent summary state.
  • Introduces Role-Decoupled Policy Optimization, combining terminal rewards, turn-level rubric evaluations, and role-specific advantage estimates.
  • IterSynth-8B averages 50.7 across five deep-search benchmarks, outperforming the strongest prior agent at or below 8B parameters by 4.2%.
  • The prompting paradigm also provides substantial reported zero-shot gains over ReAct-style approaches on frontier proprietary models.

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IterSynth: Rethinking Deep Search Agents via Role-Decoupled Iterative Synthesis

arXiv cs.CL Xingyu Wu, Yuchen Yan, Zhengxi Lu, Siqi Chen, Xin ZHANG, Aiting Liu, Chao Deng, Jie Liu, Jin Ma, Jian Shao, Jun Xiao, Yongliang Shen 2026-09-24 arXiv:2609.29444
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TL;DR - IterSynth is a deep-search agent framework that separates planning from evidence synthesis and maintains a compact evolving summary instead of a growing search history. This reduces role coupling and context noise, improving long-horizon search performance across multiple models.

  • Alternates between a Planner that identifies information needs and a Synthesizer that integrates evidence into the persistent summary state.
  • Introduces Role-Decoupled Policy Optimization, combining terminal rewards, turn-level rubric evaluations, and role-specific advantage estimates.
  • IterSynth-8B averages 50.7 across five deep-search benchmarks, outperforming the strongest prior agent at or below 8B parameters by 4.2%.
  • The prompting paradigm also provides substantial reported zero-shot gains over ReAct-style approaches on frontier proprietary models.
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