search

Definition

Covers two distinct senses. One is retrieval: finding relevant documents or passages, by embedding similarity or classical inverted indexes. The other is search over a solution space — beam search, tree search, sampling many candidate reasoning paths and scoring them. The second sense underpins much recent test-time-compute work, where extra inference buys broader exploration of candidates.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Explained: False Frontiers — Diagnosing and Breaking Co-Cheating in Self-Evolving Search AgentsFalse Frontiers: Diagnosing and Mitigating Co-Cheating in Self-Evolving Search Agents
• Paper Deep-Dive: Iris — Reverse-Built Search Tasks and SFT↔RL ClimbingIris: Climbing to the Search Frontier
• Paper Explained: StarHarness — Evolving the Scaffold Instead of the WeightsStarHarness: Evolving Harnesses with Stratified Search for Enterprise Environments