OpenSeeker: Democratizing Frontier Search Agents by Fully Open-Sourcing Training Data

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Founder's Pitch

"Fully open-source search agent democratizing high-performance frontier search through open data and code."

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Why It Matters

OpenSeeker democratizes access to high-performance search models, which have traditionally been exclusive to large corporations due to proprietary datasets.

Product Angle

Productize OpenSeeker as an API for third-party developers and researchers to build applications on top of it that require advanced search capabilities and data-driven insights.

Disruption

OpenSeeker can displace proprietary search agents by providing equivalent or superior performance with transparency and cost-efficiency, promoting innovation and reducing barriers in the research community.

Product Opportunity

The need for high-quality search capabilities is significant in edtech, research institutions, and enterprises seeking competitive intelligence. These sectors will benefit from improved automated search capabilities and open-source accessibility, reducing dependency on costly proprietary agents.

Use Case Idea

An accessible AI-driven platform for educational or enterprise research that leverages OpenSeeker to provide deep, multi-faceted insights from web data.

Science

OpenSeeker uses scalable QA synthesis and denoised trajectory synthesis to create complex, multi-hop reasoning datasets that train search agents to perform at state-of-the-art levels. It involves reverse-engineering web graphs and controlling complexity through entity obfuscation, enabling deep reasoning required for search tasks.

Method & Eval

Tested on BrowseComp, BrowseComp-ZH, xbench-DeepSearch, and WideSearch, OpenSeeker achieved state-of-the-art performance using a single training run with default parameters, beating both open-source and some proprietary models.

Caveats

Although promising, the model's performance heavily depends on the quality of web data, and potential biases in dataset creation may impact results. Resource constraints during training indicate room for optimization.

Author Intelligence

Yuwen Du

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Rui Ye

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
yr991129@sjtu.edu.cn

Shuo Tang

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Xinyu Zhu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yijun Lu

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Yuzhu Cai

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Siheng Chen

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
sihengc@sjtu.edu.cn

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