Perspective-Guided Research

Assigning distinct perspectives to parallel research branches broadens the questions and evidence gathered before synthesis.

Before searching, derive several roles, affiliations, or topical focuses from related material and assign one to each research branch. Each perspective directs attention toward different questions that an unconditioned topic query may miss. Add a fixed generalist branch for basic facts so diversity does not erase baseline coverage.

This specializes branch-solve-merge for evidence discovery: branches do not independently solve the whole task, but gather complementary material through iterative research conversations that is later organized into a shared synthesis.

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Sources

• Shao et al. (2024), full paper, pp. 1–27