aiqbench analysis
HyperBrowseComp establishes a rigorous new benchmark for evaluating web-browsing agents by requiring them to locate obscure, verifiable answers across 13 languages and diverse media types. By filtering out questions answerable via parametric knowledge alone, the study isolates true reasoning capabilities in persistent information seeking from simple recall. This work is critical for advancing multimodal AI agents that can effectively navigate complex, heterogeneous data sources on the open web.
HyperBrowseComp: A Multilingual and Multimodal Stress Test for Web-Browsing Agents
arXiv:2610.03574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce HyperBrowseComp, a multilingual and multimodal browsing benchmark comprising 423 manually authored and human-validated questions across 13 languages, written by native or highly proficient speakers. Questions are designed to be extremely challenging. Each question targets a concise, publicly verifiable answer whose discovery requires locating obscure evidence, following multi-step clue chains, or inspecting heterogeneous sources such as videos, scanned documents, images, or maps. Easier questions are filtered out by evaluating them with models without internet access to reduce the likelihood that they can be answered with parametric knowledge alone. We evaluate several models using provider-native search and a shared external retrieval harness under a common agent protocol. To contextualize model performance and effort, we also conduct a human evaluation on a sample of the questions. HyperBrowseComp provides a challenging testbed for persistent information seeking across languages and evidence modalities, with difficulty arising from discovering and connecting evidence on the open web.
Authors:Alham Fikri Aji, Faiz Rizki Ramadhan, Zayd M. K. Zuhri, Seung Hun Eddie Han, Ryandito Diandaru, Qinrong Cui, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, Badrinath Chandana, Peerawat Chomphooyod, Ahmed Attia, Jonibek Mansurov, Emilio Villa-Cueva, Canh Duong Nguyen, Imran Turganov, Minghao Wu, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Irina Nikishina
Abstract:We introduce HyperBrowseComp, a multilingual and multimodal browsing benchmark comprising 423 manually authored and human-validated questions across 13 languages, written by native or highly proficient speakers. Questions are designed to be extremely challenging. Each question targets a concise, publicly verifiable answer whose discovery requires locating obscure evidence, following multi-step clue chains, or inspecting heterogeneous sources such as videos, scanned documents, images, or maps. Easier questions are filtered out by evaluating them with models without internet access to reduce the likelihood that they can be answered with parametric knowledge alone. We evaluate several models using provider-native search and a shared external retrieval harness under a common agent protocol. To contextualize model performance and effort, we also conduct a human evaluation on a sample of the questions. HyperBrowseComp provides a challenging testbed for persistent information seeking across languages and evidence modalities, with difficulty arising from discovering and connecting evidence on the open web.
Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
arXiv:2610.03574 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2610.03574v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.03574 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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