SmartSearch: Process Reward-Guided Query Refinement for Search Agents.

@inproceedings{wen-2026-smartsearch, author = {Tongyu Wen and Guanting Dong and Zhicheng Dou}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{SmartSearch: Process Reward-Guided Query Refinement for Search Agents}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {1971--1982}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809700}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3809700} }