FlashResearch: Real-time Agent Orchestration for Efficient Deep Research

ICLR 2026 Conference Submission14021 Authors

Keywords: Deep Research, Agent Orchestration, Runtime Efficiency

Abstract: Deep research agents, which synthesize information across diverse sources, are significantly constrained by their sequential reasoning processes. This architectural bottleneck results in high latency, poor runtime adaptability, and inefficient resource allocation, making them impractical for interactive applications. To overcome this, we introduce *FlashResearch*, a novel framework for efficient deep research that transforms sequential processing into parallel, runtime orchestration by dynamically decomposing complex queries into tree-structured sub-tasks. Our core contributions are threefold: **(1)** an **adaptive planner** that dynamically allocates computational resources by determining research breadth and depth based on query complexity; **(2)** a **real-time orchestration layer** that monitors research progress and prunes redundant paths to reallocate resources and optimize efficiency; and **(3)** a **multi-dimensional parallelization framework** that enables concurrency across both research breadth and depth. Experiments show that FlashResearch consistently improves final report quality within fixed time budgets, and can deliver up to a 5x speedup while maintaining comparable quality.

Primary Area: foundation or frontier models, including LLMs

Submission Number: 14021