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Asking for What Was Never Requested: Horizontal and Vertical Proactivity in Agents

The paper explores proactive agents' ability to seek unstated information, distinguishing between horizontal proactivity (pursuing information within the current context) and vertical proactivity (identifying needs revealed by earlier evidence). It introduces Q&D, a method that trains a questioner to prioritize questions that retrieve more required evidence without a reward model. On multi-hop QA benchmarks, the trained questioner outperforms larger models in proactivity and task completion while asking fewer questions.

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PublishedSeptember 29, 2026Ido Levy, Asaf Yehudai, Segev Shlomov
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This research advances proactive agents by focusing on the content of their actions rather than just whether they act independently, showing improved task completion with fewer questions.

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