让大模型搜索更可靠,通过目标规划与自我反思避免错误路径。
RE-Searcher: Robust Agentic Search with Goal-oriented Planning and Self-reflection
- 设定明确搜索目标,动态评估结果是否匹配
- 在复杂环境下准确率显著提升,优于现有方法
- 适合需要高可靠性搜索的智能代理系统
大型语言模型(LLMs)在知识密集型问答和推理任务中表现优异,但其实际应用受限于知识截止、幻觉现象以及交互模态有限。通过引入外部搜索工具可缓解这些问题,但也使智能体暴露在复杂的搜索环境中,微小且看似合理的查询变化可能引导推理走向无效路径并放大错误。我们进行系统性分析,量化环境复杂性如何导致脆弱的搜索行为,并进而降低整体性能。为此,提出一种简单而有效的方法——RE-Searcher。该方法在搜索过程中显式定义具体目标,并反思检索到的证据是否满足该目标。目标导向规划与自我反思的结合使RE-Searcher能够抵御复杂环境中的误导信号,实现稳健搜索。大量实验表明,该方法显著提升搜索准确率,达到当前最优水平。扰动实验进一步证明其对噪声或误导性外部信号具有强鲁棒性,有效缓解了搜索过程的脆弱性。这些发现为将基于LLM的智能体融入更复杂的交互环境提供了实用指导,助力实现更高自主性的决策。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language models (LLMs) excel at knowledge-intensive question answering and reasoning, yet their real-world deployment remains constrained by knowledge cutoff, hallucination, and limited interaction modalities. Augmenting LLMs with external search tools helps alleviate these issues, but it also exposes agents to a complex search environment in which small, plausible variations in query formulation can steer reasoning into unproductive trajectories and amplify errors. We present a systematic analysis that quantifies how environmental complexity induces fragile search behaviors and, in turn, degrades overall performance. To address this challenge, we propose a simple yet effective approach to instantiate a search agent, RE-Searcher. During search, RE-Searcher explicitly articulates a concrete search goal and subsequently reflects on whether the retrieved evidence satisfies that goal. This combination of goal-oriented planning and self-reflection enables RE-Searcher to resist spurious cues in complex search environments and perform robust search. Extensive experiments show that our method improves search accuracy and achieves state-of-the-art results. Perturbation studies further demonstrate substantial resilience to noisy or misleading external signals, mitigating the fragility of the search process. We believe these findings offer practical guidance for integrating LLM-powered agents into more complex interactive environments and enabling more autonomous decision-making.
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