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DR-Arena: an Automated Evaluation Framework for Deep Research Agents

AchievementBenchmarkJul 10, 2026

Yiwen Gao and colleagues introduce DR-Arena, an automated evaluation framework for Deep Research agents that addresses limitations of static benchmarks through dynamic investigation using real-time web trends. DR-Arena generates structured tasks testing deep reasoning and wide coverage, with an adaptive controller that escalates complexity until capability boundaries emerge. The framework achieves a Spearman correlation of 0.94 with the LMSYS Search Arena leaderboard, representing state-of-the-art alignment with human preferences without manual effort.

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Canonical: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10504