DecoupleSearch: Decouple Planning and Search via Hierarchical Reward Modeling

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Auteurs principaux: Sun, Hao, Qiao, Zile, Wang, Bo, Chen, Guoxin, Hou, Yingyan, Jiang, Yong, Xie, Pengjun, Huang, Fei, Zhang, Yan
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author Sun, Hao
Qiao, Zile
Wang, Bo
Chen, Guoxin
Hou, Yingyan
Jiang, Yong
Xie, Pengjun
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Yan
author_facet Sun, Hao
Qiao, Zile
Wang, Bo
Chen, Guoxin
Hou, Yingyan
Jiang, Yong
Xie, Pengjun
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Yan
contents Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have emerged as a pivotal methodology for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) through the dynamic integration of external knowledge. To further improve RAG's flexibility, Agentic RAG introduces autonomous agents into the workflow. However, Agentic RAG faces several challenges: (1) the success of each step depends on both high-quality planning and accurate search, (2) the lack of supervision for intermediate reasoning steps, and (3) the exponentially large candidate space for planning and searching. To address these challenges, we propose DecoupleSearch, a novel framework that decouples planning and search processes using dual value models, enabling independent optimization of plan reasoning and search grounding. Our approach constructs a reasoning tree, where each node represents planning and search steps. We leverage Monte Carlo Tree Search to assess the quality of each step. During inference, Hierarchical Beam Search iteratively refines planning and search candidates with dual value models. Extensive experiments across policy models of varying parameter sizes demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
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spellingShingle DecoupleSearch: Decouple Planning and Search via Hierarchical Reward Modeling
Sun, Hao
Qiao, Zile
Wang, Bo
Chen, Guoxin
Hou, Yingyan
Jiang, Yong
Xie, Pengjun
Huang, Fei
Zhang, Yan
Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have emerged as a pivotal methodology for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) through the dynamic integration of external knowledge. To further improve RAG's flexibility, Agentic RAG introduces autonomous agents into the workflow. However, Agentic RAG faces several challenges: (1) the success of each step depends on both high-quality planning and accurate search, (2) the lack of supervision for intermediate reasoning steps, and (3) the exponentially large candidate space for planning and searching. To address these challenges, we propose DecoupleSearch, a novel framework that decouples planning and search processes using dual value models, enabling independent optimization of plan reasoning and search grounding. Our approach constructs a reasoning tree, where each node represents planning and search steps. We leverage Monte Carlo Tree Search to assess the quality of each step. During inference, Hierarchical Beam Search iteratively refines planning and search candidates with dual value models. Extensive experiments across policy models of varying parameter sizes demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
title DecoupleSearch: Decouple Planning and Search via Hierarchical Reward Modeling
topic Information Retrieval
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.21712