Plan Before Search: Search Agents Need Plan

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Learn how to improve search agents with structured planning, a crucial step before search that enhances retrieval-augmented reasoning

advanced Published 28 May 2026
Action Steps
  1. Define the dependency structure among sub-skills for your search agent
  2. Implement a structured agentic behavior like Plan for multi-hop retrieval
  3. Decompose complex tasks into manageable sub-tasks using Plan
  4. Evaluate the performance of your search agent with and without Plan
  5. Integrate Plan with reinforcement learning and distillation techniques to enhance capability acquisition
Who Needs to Know This

AI researchers and engineers working on retrieval-augmented reasoning agents can benefit from this approach to improve their models' performance and efficiency

Key Insight

💡 Structured planning is a crucial step before search that can enhance the performance and efficiency of retrieval-augmented reasoning agents

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🔍 Improve search agents with Plan, a structured approach to retrieval-augmented reasoning #AI #SearchAgents

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Learn how to improve search agents with structured planning, a crucial step before search that enhances retrieval-augmented reasoning

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Title: Plan Before Search: Search Agents Need Plan

Abstract:
arXiv:2605.28354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training large language models as retrieval-augmented reasoning agents typically combines reinforcement learning with an SFT cold start distilled from a stronger model. However, this paradigm overlooks two fundamental factors: the dependency structure among sub-skills, and the possibility that distillation is not the only route to capability acquisition. We study this through Plan, a structured agentic behavior for multi-hop retrieval that decompos
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