Universal Deep Research: Bring Your Own Model and Strategy
This addresses the problem of inflexibility in deep research tools for users who need customizable strategies, though it is incremental as it builds on existing agentic systems.
The paper tackles the limitation of existing deep research agents being hard-coded to specific strategies and tools by introducing Universal Deep Research (UDR), a generalist agentic system that allows users to create and refine custom research strategies using any language model without additional training.
Deep research tools are among the most impactful and most commonly encountered agentic systems today. We observe, however, that each deep research agent introduced so far is hard-coded to carry out a particular research strategy using a fixed choice of tools. We introduce Universal Deep Research (UDR), a generalist agentic system that wraps around any language model and enables the user to create, edit, and refine their own entirely custom deep research strategies without any need for additional training or finetuning. To showcase the generality of our system, we equip UDR with example minimal, expansive, and intensive research strategies, and provide a user interface to facilitate experimentation with the system.