Zhao Xu
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2026
Table-as-Search: Agentic Information Seeking is Table Completion
Tian Lan | Felix Henry | Bin Zhu | Qianghuai Jia | Junyang Ren | Qihang PU | Haijun Li | Longyue Wang | Zhao Xu | Weihua Luo
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Tian Lan | Felix Henry | Bin Zhu | Qianghuai Jia | Junyang Ren | Qihang PU | Haijun Li | Longyue Wang | Zhao Xu | Weihua Luo
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Current Information Seeking (InfoSeeking) agents struggle to maintain focus and coherence during long-horizon exploration, as tracking search states, including planning procedure and massive search results, within one plain-text context is inherently fragile.To address this, we introduce Table-as-Search (TaS), a structured planning framework that reformulates the InfoSeeking task as a Table Completion task.TaS maps each query into a structured table schema maintained in an external database, where rows represent search candidates and columns denote constraints or required information.This table precisely manages the search states: filled cells strictly record the history and search results, while empty cells serve as an explicit search plan.Crucially, TaS unifies three distinct InfoSeeking tasks: Deep Search, Wide Search, and the challenging DeepWide Search.Extensive experiments demonstrate that TaS significantly outperforms numerous state-of-the-art baselines across three kinds of benchmarks, including multi-agent framework and commercial systems.Furthermore, our analysis validates the TaS’s superior robustness in long-horizon InfoSeeking, alongside its efficiency, scalability and flexibility.Code and datasets are publicly released at https://github.com/AIDC-AI/Marco-Search-Agent.
MirrorCAPTCHA: Wild CAPTCHA, Wild Distribution, Wild Web-based Platform Meet Multimodal LLM Agents
Xiangyu Wu | Yuwei Hu | Tianyu Cui | Yueying Tian | Qing-Guo Chen | Zhao Xu | Weihua Luo | Kaifu Zhang | Yang Yang | Jianfeng Lu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Xiangyu Wu | Yuwei Hu | Tianyu Cui | Yueying Tian | Qing-Guo Chen | Zhao Xu | Weihua Luo | Kaifu Zhang | Yang Yang | Jianfeng Lu
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
The path to fully autonomous web agents is currently hindered by a critical bottleneck: their limited ability to handle CAPTCHA. Existing agent benchmarks largely ignore this practical challenge, failing to evaluate an agent’s real-world capacity to solve CAPTCHA. To bridge this gap, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of real-world CAPTCHA distributions and introduce MirrorCAPTCHA, a benchmark annotated with Weighted Pass Rate and a newly proposed metric Completion Degree. MirrorCAPTCHA is designed to serve as a “mirror” that faithfully reflects the automation capabilities of agents in real scenarios. We filter 2095 websites from Common Crawl, identify the CAPTCHA deployed on these sites, and cluster them into 18 distinct categories using K-means algorithm. To ensure practicality, we extract a web subgraph from Common Crawl covering these websites and use random walks to simulate real-world CAPTCHA encounter frequencies, yielding a realistic measure of agents’ ability. Additionally, we develop a lightweight synthetic data pipeline to train Ovis2-Agent-CAPTCHA-8B, which significantly outperforms current state-of-the-art closed-source models on MirrorCAPTCHA, achieving a 9.4% higher average Weighted Pass Rate and a 2.13% higher average Completion Degree than the runner-up, Gemini-2.5-Pro.