CMU AI Agents course releases Deep Research lecture: building, evaluating and RL-training research agents
AkariAsai · x · 2026-10-11
Akari Asai released lecture 10, "Deep Research," from CMU's CS 11-768: AI Agents (Fall 2026) course, an end-to-end overview of building deep research agents.
The lecture covers:
- Iterative search and evidence synthesis
- Evaluation rubrics for research agents
- Training agents with reinforcement learning
- Retrieval tailored to an agent's information needs
It serves as a comprehensive guide to building, evaluating, and training capable research agents.
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