InfoSeeker: A Scalable Hierarchical Parallel Agent Framework for Web Information Seeking

arXiv cs.AI / 4/6/2026

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Key Points

  • InfoSeeker is a hierarchical parallel agent framework for web information seeking that targets data-intensive synthesis across many heterogeneous sources.
  • The approach uses a Host–Managers–Workers structure with aggregation and reflection at the Manager layer to enforce context isolation and reduce context saturation and cascading error propagation.
  • Worker-level parallelism accelerates end-to-end execution and mitigates high latency typical of multi-step agentic search systems.
  • Experiments on WideSearch-en and BrowseComp-zh report a 3–5× speed-up plus an 8.4% success rate and 52.9% accuracy, respectively, demonstrating both efficiency and effectiveness.
  • The paper announces the framework and provides released code on GitHub for reproducibility and further experimentation.

Abstract

Recent agentic search systems have made substantial progress by emphasising deep, multi-step reasoning. However, this focus often overlooks the challenges of wide-scale information synthesis, where agents must aggregate large volumes of heterogeneous evidence across many sources. As a result, most existing large language model agent systems face severe limitations in data-intensive settings, including context saturation, cascading error propagation, and high end-to-end latency. To address these challenges, we present \framework, a hierarchical framework based on principle of near-decomposability, containing a strategic \textit{Host}, multiple \textit{Managers} and parallel \textit{Workers}. By leveraging aggregation and reflection mechanisms at the Manager layer, our framework enforces strict context isolation to prevent saturation and error propagation. Simultaneously, the parallelism in worker layer accelerates the speed of overall task execution, mitigating the significant latency. Our evaluation on two complementary benchmarks demonstrates both efficiency ( 3-5 \times speed-up) and effectiveness, achieving a 8.4\% success rate on WideSearch-en and 52.9\% accuracy on BrowseComp-zh. The code is released at https://github.com/agent-on-the-fly/InfoSeeker