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Iris-mini and Iris-pro search agents trained at large scales

Iris-mini and Iris-pro are search agents trained at 35B and 397B parameters, respectively, using a data pipeline and training recipe involving RL and supervised fine-tuning. Results are evaluated with and without inference-time context management.

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From arXiv cs.AI - “Iris: Climbing to the Search Frontier

The announcement covers two search agents, Iris-mini and Iris-pro, trained at large scales with a specific data pipeline and training approach. Tasks are reverse-constructed from web hyperlink structures, with questions designed to challenge models' reasoning abilities.

The training process involves multi-hop chain authoring, rewriting non-answer entities, and filtering trajectories before supervised fine-tuning. Reinforcement learning optimizes the policy against live search, with a focus on returning the hardest and most efficient rollouts for subsequent supervised passes.

Evaluation includes both with and without inference-time context management, emphasizing the importance of context handling in search benchmarks. The models achieve strong results across multiple datasets, outperforming other open-source search agents in their parameter ranges.

The release will include model weights and the complete data construction, training, and evaluation recipes, supporting reproducibility and further research.

Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04304

Published Sep 7, 2026 · updated Sep 7, 2026 · 132 words

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