让多个智能体递归协作,实现深度与广度兼备的网页搜索。
WebSwarm: Recursive Multi-Agent Orchestration for Deep-and-Wide Web Search

- 通过动态创建智能体节点,递归分解任务并协同搜索。
- 在四个数据集上超越单智能体和传统多智能体系统。
- 适合需要深入调研与广泛覆盖的复杂信息检索场景。
基于大语言模型的网页搜索代理正将信息获取从简单问答拓展为复杂的深度与广度结合型研究任务。单一ReAct风格代理受限于单一长轨迹和有限上下文,难以同时兼顾深度与覆盖范围。现有多智能体系统虽通过并行执行提升覆盖,但在递归深度、协作适应性和基于证据的扩展方面仍存明显局限。我们提出WebSwarm,一种渐进式递归委派框架,在推理过程中联合构建任务分解、递归扩展与智能体协作。WebSwarm动态实例化智能体搜索节点,每个节点耦合局部目标与搜索模式,决定如何组织搜索与协作。节点可自主解决目标或进一步委派子节点;求解后向上返回证据与结果,使父节点得以继续扩展、修正或聚合搜索过程。为引导该流程,WebSwarm先探测网页上任务相关资讯的组织方式,以支持后续节点扩展,并在同类型兄弟节点间复用过程经验。在BrowseComp-Plus、WideSearch、DeepWideSearch和GISA上的实验表明,WebSwarm在深度、广度及交错深广任务上持续优于单智能体与多智能体基线。对消融实验、任务难度、网络工具效率及模型泛化的分析揭示了其有效性,并为多智能体搜索系统提供了洞见。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large language model (LLM)-based web search agents are transforming information seeking from simple factoid question answering into complex, deep-and-wide search and research-oriented tasks. A single ReAct-style agent is constrained by one long trajectory and limited context, making it difficult to handle depth and coverage simultaneously. Existing multi-agent systems improve search coverage through parallel execution and aggregation, but still exhibit clear limitations in recursive depth, collaboration adaptability, and evidence-grounded expansion. We propose WebSwarm, a progressive recursive delegation framework that jointly constructs task decomposition, recursive expansion, and agent collaboration during inference. WebSwarm dynamically instantiates agentic search nodes, each coupling a local objective with a search mode that specifies how the node should organize search and collaboration. Each node can either solve its objective itself or further delegate child nodes; after solving, it returns evidence and results upward, enabling parent nodes to further expand, revise, or aggregate the search process. To guide this process, WebSwarm first probes how task-relevant information is organized on the web to ground subsequent node expansion, and reuses process-level experience across homogeneous sibling nodes. Experiments on BrowseComp-Plus, WideSearch, DeepWideSearch, and GISA show that WebSwarm consistently outperforms single-agent and multi-agent baselines on deep, wide, and interleaved deep-and-wide tasks. Further analyses of ablation, task difficulty, web tool efficiency, and model generalization explain WebSwarm's effectiveness and provide insights for multi-agent search systems.
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