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Structurally-bounded Agentic Graph Exploration for Evidence-Grounded Scholarly DeepSearch

Rima Hazra, Sayan Layek, Somnath Banerjee, Soumen Chakrabarti, Animesh Mukherjee

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Published 2026-08-25 · First seen 2026-08-26

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We present Crase, a bounded and inspectable alternative to deep research agents for scholarly search. Instead of an open-ended search loop, Crase queries a search engine once for seed papers, expands them along their 1.5-hop citation neighborhood, prunes citation edges whose claims lack entailment support, and ranks the remaining papers with a recency-aware random walk. This makes the candidate set, the reason each paper is kept, and the stopping condition explicit and fixed before inference. On LitSearch and one further benchmarks over a 500K-paper arXiv corpus, Crase outperforms deep research agents built on proprietary models by up to 3$\times$ recall@50 at roughly a third of the cost.

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@article{hazra2026structurally,
  title = {Structurally-bounded Agentic Graph Exploration for Evidence-Grounded Scholarly DeepSearch},
  author = {Rima Hazra and Sayan Layek and Somnath Banerjee and Soumen Chakrabarti and Animesh Mukherjee},
  year = {2026},
  abstract = {We present Crase, a bounded and inspectable alternative to deep research agents for scholarly search. Instead of an open-ended search loop, Crase queries a search engine once for seed papers, expands them along their 1.5-hop citation neighborhood, prunes citation edges whose claims lack entailment support, and ranks the remaining papers with a recency-aware random walk. This makes the candidate set, the reason each paper is kept, and the stopping condition explicit and fixed before inference. On},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.24809},
  keywords = {cs.CL, cs.IR},
  eprint = {2608.24809},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}

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