arXiv:2602.11581cs.IRcs.AI2026-02被引 1

提出分析型搜索新范式,解决复杂推理查询的证据融合与可验证性问题。

Analytical Search

  • 将搜索重构为证据驱动的多步推理流程,显式建模分析意图。
  • 支持跨文档证据融合与结构化推理,提升结论可验证性。
  • 适合法律、金融等高责任场景,推动下一代智能检索发展。

分析型信息需求(如趋势分析、因果影响评估)在法律、金融、科学等领域广泛存在。然而,现有信息检索范式——无论是基于相关性的文档排序,还是基于大语言模型的检索增强生成(RAG)——在语料规模下难以满足此类任务的端到端需求。它们或侧重信息查找而非完整问题求解,或简单将一切视为问答任务,对推理过程、证据使用和可验证性控制有限。因此,难以支持具有多样概念和高问责要求的分析型查询。本文提出分析型搜索(Analytical Search)作为一种新型搜索范式,旨在满足这些分析型信息需求。该范式将搜索重构为以证据为依据、以过程为导向的分析工作流,显式建模分析意图,检索证据并进行融合,通过结构化多步推理生成可验证结论。我们对比现有范式,提出统一系统框架,整合查询理解、召回导向检索、推理感知融合与自适应验证。同时讨论了构建分析型搜索引擎的潜在研究方向。本文强调分析型搜索的概念意义与实践价值,呼吁构建支持分析型信息需求的下一代搜索引擎。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Analytical information needs, such as trend analysis and causal impact assessment, are prevalent across various domains including law, finance, science, and much more. However, existing information retrieval paradigms, whether based on relevance-oriented document ranking or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with large language models (LLMs), often struggle to meet the end-to-end requirements of such tasks at the corpus scale. They either emphasize information finding rather than end-to-end problem solving, or simply treat everything as naive question answering, offering limited control over reasoning, evidence usage, and verifiability. As a result, they struggle to support analytical queries that have diverse utility concepts and high accountability requirements. In this paper, we propose analytical search as a distinct and emerging search paradigm designed to fulfill these analytical information needs. Analytical search reframes search as an evidence-governed, process-oriented analytical workflow that explicitly models analytical intent, retrieves evidence for fusion, and produces verifiable conclusions through structured, multi-step inference. We position analytical search in contrast to existing paradigms, and present a unified system framework that integrates query understanding, recall-oriented retrieval, reasoning-aware fusion, and adaptive verification. We also discuss potential research directions for the construction of analytical search engines. In this way, we highlight the conceptual significance and practical importance of analytical search and call on efforts toward the next generation of search engines that support analytical information needs.

信息检索分析搜索推理生成

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