**LiveBrowseComp: Are Search Agents Searching, or Just Verifying What They Already Know?**

> Are LLM-based search agents genuinely searching, or using the web to verify what they already know? We study this question on BrowseComp with three diagnostics. Our analysis reveals Intrinsic Knowledge Dependence (IKD): even with tool access, agents often rely on intrinsic knowledge -- information encoded in the model before retrieval -- rather than on external evidence. Agents answer up to 44.5% of BrowseComp questi...

**来源信息**
- **来源**：HuggingFace Daily Papers（社区热门论文）
- **分类**：论文
- **发布时间**：2026-05-28 08:00（北京时间）
- **原文**：[打开原文](https://huggingface.co/papers/2605.28721)