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  1. Fork-and-Flush: Escaping Idea Basins in Autoresearch Agents

    Oct 5, 2026Ziyang Cai, Christos Ziakas, Vasilis Kontonis +5Local SearchLong-Horizon Agent Tasks

    Microsoft Research

  2. MECHVAR: Variance-Guided Mechanism Discrimination for Autonomous Machine Learning Experiment Selection

    Oct 1, 2026Yifan GuoBayesian Experimental DesignAutonomous Experimentation

    Stony Brook University

  3. AbsorbEvo: An Agentic Framework for Autonomous Inverse Design of Microwave Absorbers

    Oct 1, 2026Zhicheng Feng, Yubo Zhao, Xuefeng YaoLarge Language Model-Guided OptimizationNatural Language to Optimization Modeling

    Department of Engineering Mechanics, Applied Mechanics Lab, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China

  4. Experimental Experience Modeling for Autonomous Research

    Sep 30, 2026Wenda Wei, Yingchen Zhang, Ruqing Zhang +3AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryAutonomous Experimentation

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  5. Autoresearch in Mixed-Integer Linear and Nonlinear Programming

    Sep 30, 2026Yuwei Gu, Yaoxin Wu, Tong Guo +2Automated Algorithm DiscoveryMixed-Integer Linear Programming

    Chengdu University of Information Technology · Eindhoven University of Technology · Nanyang University of Technology +2

  6. SimEX: Simulation-Integrated Robotics AutoResearch

    Sep 30, 2026Jiaheng Hu, Roberto Martin-Martin, Peter Stone +3Robot Skill LearningRobotics Simulation

    Amazon FAR (Frontier AI & Robotics) · The University of Texas at Austin · Carnegie Mellon University

  7. RSI-Master: Structuring Experiments to Guide Autonomous Model Improvement

    Sep 28, 2026Yaxin Du, Xiyuan Yang, Zhifan Zhou +10Language Model Post-TrainingSelf-Improving Agents

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Waterloo

  8. PEAR: Progressive Evidence-Based AutoResearch for Industrial Search Systems

    Sep 28, 2026Yifan Wang, Shipeng Zhu, Fei Xiong +6Information RetrievalSequential Hypothesis Testing

    Global E-Commerce Agentic Search Team

  9. ALDER: Discovering the Laws of a World by Acting in It

    Sep 27, 2026Teng Cao, Yu Deng, Quentin Delfosse +1Scientific DiscoveryAction-Conditioned World Models

    Technische Universität Darmstadt · Intrinsic · CS Department, TU Darmstadt +2

  10. Advancing Model Research in AgentX: Long-Horizon Autonomy for Industrial Recommender Systems

    Sep 24, 2026Shuang Yang, Zijie Zhuang, Changxin Lao +20AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

  11. WhatWorkedBench: Benchmarking Experimental Understanding in AI Agents

    Sep 23, 2026Jingjie Ning, Xueqi Li, Yibo Kong +1AI Agent EvaluationActive Learning

    Carnegie Mellon University · Tsinghua University

  12. Evidence-Grounded Agentic Formulation Development in an Autonomous Laboratory

    Sep 16, 2026Michael M. Craig, Riley J. Hickman, Yingshan Ma +3Autonomous ExperimentationAutonomous Research Agents

    Intrepid Labs, Toronto, Canada

  13. Hypothesis-Driven Autonomous Materials Synthesis with Multimodal LLM Agents

    Sep 16, 2026Izumi Takahara, Kazunori Nishio, Akira Aiba +4LLM Agent Skill LearningAutonomous Scientific Discovery

    Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 153-8505, Japan · Department of Chemistry, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan · Rigaku Corporation, Tokyo 196-8666, Japan +1

  14. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

    Sep 14, 2026Tong Zheng, Xidong Wu, Zheng Zhang +14RL ExplorationSelf-Improving Agents

    Google · University of Maryland, College Park · Google Deepmind +1

  15. Auto-RecSys: Harnessing Autonomous Research Agents for Industry-Scale Recommender System

    Sep 11, 2026Ming Li, Dai Li, Xuying Ning +11Recommender SystemsLong-Horizon LLM Agents

    Meta · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  16. La Agente 'Optima: Towards Agentic Self-Driving Laboratories

    Sep 7, 2026Marcel Müller, Jiaru Bai, Willi Gottstein +14Bayesian OptimizationLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, ON M5S 3H6, Canada · Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, W1140-108 College St., Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus, Toronto, ON2026 M5G 0C6, Canada · Acceleration Consortium, 700 University Ave., Toronto, ON M7A 2S4, Canada +11

  17. Science sandboxes measure the scientific capability of AI agents

    Aug 31, 2026Arya S. Rao, Rodrigo I. Castro, Sager J. Gosai +8Protein Fitness PredictionAI Agent Evaluation

    The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. · Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School; Boston, MA 02115, USA. · The Jackson Laboratory; Bar Harbor, ME 04609, USA. +10

  18. AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out

    Aug 18, 2026Xiang Liu, Qumeng Sun, Bruno +3Scientific Hypothesis GenerationResearch Idea Generation

    Infinite Evolution Lab, EvoMap

  19. AQuA: Recursively Self-Improving Quantitative Trading Research Agents

    Aug 13, 2026Jiacheng Guo, Suozhi Huang, Yunlong Gao +5Quantitative FinanceAutomated Algorithm Discovery

    Princeton University · Ant Group · Stanford University

  20. ChemWorld: Programmable Chemical Worlds for Controlled and Replayable Agent Experimentation

    Aug 11, 2026Jiangjie Qiu, Yijun Li, Xiaonan WangAI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryScientific Reproducibility

    Beijing Key Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence for Advanced Chemical Engineering Materials, State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering and Low-Carbon Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  21. Agentic Auto-Research is Fuzz Testing

    Aug 10, 2026Yifeng He, Jicheng Wang, Yinzhe Zhao +2AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryAutonomous Experimentation

    University of California, Davis · ARA Lab · Zhejiang University +2

  22. Multitask Scanning Probe Microscopy

    Aug 10, 2026Aditya Raghavan, Yu Liu, Ian Mercer +2Active LearningMulti-Task Learning

    University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA · 2Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

  23. Causal Behavioral Evaluation of AI Agents at Scale via Automated Behavioral Science

    Aug 10, 2026Soo Yong Lee, Jongha Lee, Jaewan Chun +8AI-Assisted Scientific ResearchAI Agent Evaluation

    KAIST, Kim Jaechul Graduate School of AI · Yale, Department of Psychiatry · University of Haifa, School of Public Health +3

  24. Autonomous discovery of accelerator commissioning algorithms

    Aug 7, 2026Thorsten HellertAutomated Algorithm DiscoveryLarge Language Model-Guided Scientific Discovery

    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

  25. OPERA: Operator-residual feedback for reliable autonomous optical experiments with language-model agents

    Aug 6, 2026Ning Xu, Xiang Zheng, Fuqiang Zhong +4Feedback ControlAutonomous Experimentation

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · ModelBest Inc., Beijing, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, China +1

  26. Capability-Gated Planning: Cost-to-Goal Discovery and the Limits of Myopic Experiment Selection

    Aug 5, 2026Ahmed Hassoon, Mark DredzeBelief-Space PlanningCost-Aware Inference

    Johns Hopkins University

  27. From Trajectories to Evidence: Auditable Experimental Records for Industrial Research Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Zijie Zhuang, Changxin Lao, Pengbo Xu +13Data ProvenanceEvidence-Grounded Reasoning

    Kuaishou Technology, Beijing, China

  28. A/B Agent: A Self-Evolving Agent for Strategy Iteration in Industrial A/B Testing

    Aug 5, 2026Zhuohang Jiang, Yuxin Chen, Yongsen Pan +6Retrieval-Augmented GenerationRecommender Systems

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong SAR, China · Kuaishou Technology Beijing, China · Southwest Jiaotong University Chengdu, SiChuan, China

  29. Can LLM design high-quality experiments? A Comprehensive and Systematic Benchmark on Autonomous Experimental Design

    Aug 4, 2026Zejun Liu, Jian Wu, Ru Peng +4AI for ScienceBenchmark Design

    Westlake University · Zhejiang University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology +1

  30. Beyond Solution-Centric Search: Adaptive Inquiry and Knowledge Revision for Autonomous ML Engineering

    Aug 3, 2026Shaokang Fu, Yulong Tao, Linbo Jin +7Active Information GatheringAutomated Machine Learning

    Alibaba Group · East China Normal University · Zhejiang University +2

  31. Agentic Stage-One Stellarator Optimization: Autonomous Multi-Objective Search for Finite-Beta Equilibria

    Aug 2, 2026Tingjia Zhang, Zhuoran Meng, Runlai XuAI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryMulti-Objective Optimization

  32. AgentHPOBench: A Benchmark For Evaluating LLM Agents as Sequential Hyperparameter Optimizers

    Jul 31, 2026Tianyu Huai, Tingshuo Fan, Xinchi Chen +5LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    Shanghai Innovation Institute · East China Normal University · OpenMOSS +1

  33. An AI Scientist that Doesn't Drift: Taste, Structure, and Falsifiable Findings in a Quadruped Navigation Research Loop

    Jul 30, 2026Yiwen Zhang, Eloise Zeng, Jaeha Lee +1AI for ScienceHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A. · Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.

  34. Rehearse: Stepping Back from the Confidence Cliff in Self-Improving Autoresearch

    Jul 30, 2026Jiazhen Ji, Shouhong DingLanguage Model Self-AssessmentAutonomous Experimentation

    Tencent

  35. PUDA: An AI-Native Hardware Harness for Self-Driving Laboratories

    Jul 29, 2026Zekun Ren, Hongzhao Tan, Jiaen Yee +1Laboratory AutomationTool-Using Agents

    Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS) · School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

  36. Agentic AI for Scientific Reasoning in Autonomous Quantum Sensing Experiments

    Jul 27, 2026Takuya Isogawa, Ryotaro Okabe, Nutdech Phadetsuwannukun +2AI Agent BenchmarksLaboratory Automation

    Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA · Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA · Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  37. Cost-Aware Recovery-Pathway Identification and Bayesian Optimization for Autonomous Materials Discovery

    Jul 26, 2026Debajyoti Ray, Niranjan SrinivasCost-Sensitive LearningBayesian Optimization

    Coactive Science

  38. LabRobFail: A Benchmark for Robotic Failure Analysis in Chemical Self-driving Laboratory

    Jul 26, 2026Haobo Wang, Baoli Sun, Anqi Zou +8Robot Failure DetectionRobotics

    School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China +3

  39. Stress-testing large language model agents in a robotic chemistry laboratory

    Jul 25, 2026Lulu Guo, Yingkai Sun, Xiaobo Li +13AI Agent ReliabilityAI Agents for Scientific Discovery

    State Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · Center for Scientific Intelligence Innovation, Hefei, China · School of Chemistry, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  40. Scalable Low-Cost Laboratory Automation: A Digital Twin-Integrated Robotic Platform for Autonomous Liquid Handling (RAINBOT)

    Jul 22, 2026Mohamed Rami Ayeche, Souhil Sid, Ahyen Mostofa +3Laboratory AutomationRobotic Manipulation

    Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. · AISCIA Informatics, Qatar Science and Technology Park, Doha, Qatar · Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Education City, Doha, Qatar.

  41. Toward Trustworthy Autonomous Science: A Two-Year Community Roadmap

    Jul 13, 2026Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Milad Abolhasani, Peter Beaucage +25Autonomous Scientific DiscoveryAI Agent Governance

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  42. From Closed-Loop Optimization to Open Decision Making: Coupled Digital Twins for Predictive and Autonomous Microscopy

    Jul 7, 2026Yu Liu, Boris Slautin, Ian Mercer +2Digital TwinsAutonomous Experimentation

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA · Materials Science and Engineering Department, Materials Research Institute, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA

  43. Compressing the Validation Bottleneck: An Agentic Self-Driving Lab for Scientific Discovery

    Jul 5, 2026Kyunghoon Hur, Chihun LeeAI for ScienceMultifidelity Modeling

    AX Research Division, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Republic of Korea · Material Data Division, Korea Institute of Materials Science, Republic of Korea

  44. Optimal Resource Utilization for Autonomous Laboratory Orchestrators

    Jul 1, 2026Austin McDannald, Julia Tisaranni, Howie JoressLaboratory AutomationScientific Workflow Automation

    Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

  45. A Self-Evolving Agentic System for Automated Generation and Execution of Biological Protocols

    Jun 30, 2026Yankai Jiang, Weiting Tang, Haoran Sun +11Scientific Code GenerationLaboratory Automation

    1Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China · 2Genoria AI, Shenzhen, China

  46. FARS: A Fully Automated Research System Deployed at Scale

    Jun 30, 2026Qiong Tang, Tianxiang Sun, Xiangkun Hu +54AI Agent EvaluationAutonomous Scientific Discovery

  47. One Reflection Is Not Enough: Self-Correcting Autonomous Research via Multi-Hypothesis Failure Attribution

    Jun 30, 2026Jie Ma, Binfei Chu, Jie Gao +6Agent Failure AnalysisLLM Self-Correction

    Xiamen University · Hello Inc. · Xiaohongshu Inc.

  48. STEMGym: Benchmarking Sequential Decision-Making under Dose Budgets in Autonomous Electron Microscopy

    Jun 28, 2026Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban +1Autonomous ExperimentationMicroscopy Image Analysis

    Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng. Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX, USA · Dept. of Prosthetics & Orthotics College of Science & Eng. Ankara Univ., Ankara, Turkey · Hamad Bin Khalifa Univ. and Texas A&M Univ. at Qatar Doha, Qatar

  49. AgentX: Towards Agent-Driven Self-Iteration of Industrial Recommender Systems

    Jun 25, 2026Changxin Lao, Fei Pan, Guozhuang Ma +59Software Engineering AgentsMulti-Agent Collaboration

  50. Socratic agents for autonomous scientific discovery in high-dimensional physical systems

    Jun 25, 2026Xianrui Zeng, Pengfei Liu, Yirui Zang +5Scientific Hypothesis GenerationAutonomous Scientific Discovery

    Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, 310024, China. · Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, China. · Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200433, China. +1

  51. auto-psych: Automating the science of mind using agent-driven theory discovery and experimentation

    Jun 24, 2026Ben Prystawski, Kushin Mukherjee, Daniel Wurgaft +4Computational Cognitive ModelingAutonomous Scientific Discovery

    Department of Psychology, Stanford University · Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

  52. Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist

    Jun 24, 2026Akshay K. Jagadish, Younes Strittmatter, Nori Jacoby +5Computational Cognitive ModelingAutonomous Scientific Discovery

    Princeton AI Lab, Princeton University

  53. Agon: An Autonomous Large-Scale Omnidisciplinary Research System Built on Prompt Economy

    Jun 23, 2026Youran Sun, Xingyu Ren, Chugang Yi +4AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  54. Agentic AutoResearch forSpace Autonomy: An Auditable, LLM-Driven Research Agent for Aerospace Control Problems

    Jun 18, 2026Amit Jain, Richard LinaresAutonomous ExperimentationAutonomous Research Agents

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139

  55. Dual-Agent Framework for Cross-Model Verified Translation of Natural-Language Protocols into Robotic Laboratory Platform

    Jun 18, 2026Hyeonna Choi, Jung Yup Kim, Hyuneui Lim +1LLM Agent OrchestrationLaboratory Automation

    Department of Bionic Machinery, Research Institute of AI Robot, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, 156, Gajeongbuk-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34103, South Korea · 156, Gajeongbuk-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34103, South Korea · Department of Nano-devices & displays, Nano-convergence Manufacturing Research Division, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, 156, Gajeongbuk-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34103, South Korea

  56. Empowering Polymeric Materials Discovery by Artificial Intelligence

    Jun 18, 2026Chenyao Ma, Linda Zhang, Yuheng Chen +29AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryMaterials Science

    Suzhou MatSource Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou 215000, Jiangsu, China. · Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan. · Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS), Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan. +11

  57. NIMO: A Software Platform for Closed-Loop Materials Exploration with Diverse AI Algorithms

    Jun 14, 2026Ryo Tamura, Naruki Yoshikawa, Koji Tsuda +1Materials ScienceScientific Workflow Automation

    Center for Basic Research on Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan · Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan · Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Material Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  58. Remember, Don't Re-read: Stateful ReAct Agents for Token-Efficient Autonomous Experimentation

    Jun 12, 2026Faramarz JabbarvaziriLarge Language Model-Guided OptimizationLLM Agent Workflow Optimization

  59. CARE: Context-Aware Ranking Evolution with Executable Scoring Programs for Budgeted Reaction Optimization

    Jun 12, 2026Guanyu Liu, Weiyi Kong, Chao Tang +5Large Language Model-Guided OptimizationProgram Synthesis

    University of Macau · University of Toronto · UCLA +3

  60. Closed-loop discovery of out-of-distribution processing protocols by evolutionary search and uncertainty-aware learning

    Jun 11, 2026Yu Liu, Stanislav Udovenko, Ching-Che Lin +4Materials ScienceAutonomous Experimentation

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA · Materials Science and Engineering Department, Materials Research Institute, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA · Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA +4