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

    Oct 5, 2026Ziyang Cai, Christos Ziakas, Vasilis Kontonis +5Research Automation

    Microsoft Research

  2. YouRA: A Persistent-State Architecture for Evidence-Traceable Autonomous Research Agents

    Oct 1, 2026Yoonkyu Woo, Woojin Lee, Jin-Xia HuangResearch AutomationPersistent State

    Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Republic of Korea · Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea

  3. AIM: Agentic Idea Management for Automated Research

    Sep 29, 2026Hyeong Kyu Choi, Bhavana Dalvi Mishra, Jiefeng Chen +7Research AutomationArtificial Intelligence Search

    Google Cloud AI Research · University of Wisconsin-Madison

  4. FinAutoRubric: Expert-Guided Automatic Rubric Generation for Evaluating Financial Research Agents

    Sep 28, 2026Hoyoung Lee, Suyeol Yun, Jack Haverty +17Finance BenchmarksTask-Specific Rubrics

    LinqAlpha · UNIST · MassMutual Life Insurance +9

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

    Sep 28, 2026Yaxin Du, Xiyuan Yang, Zhifan Zhou +10Recursive Self-ImprovementArtificial Intelligence Research

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

  6. From Search to Research: Exploring Search Scaling in Autonomous Quantitative Factor Mining

    Sep 28, 2026Kangcheng Deng, Hui Cai, Jiacheng Lu +6Research AutomationSequential Scaling

    StepFun · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · University of California, Los Angeles +1

  7. Can Generative AI Automate Data Extraction for Meta-Analysis? A Case Study on Intercropping Research

    Sep 28, 2026Zehao Lu, Xingguo Xiong, Wopke van der Werf +2Research AutomationPrecision Agriculture

    Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands · Zhejiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences

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

    Sep 28, 2026Yifan Wang, Shipeng Zhu, Fei Xiong +6Research AutomationAgentic Optimization

    Global E-Commerce Agentic Search Team

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

    Sep 24, 2026Shuang Yang, Zijie Zhuang, Changxin Lao +20Agentic OptimizationResearch Automation

  10. EviStreams: Human-in-the-Loop AI Data Extraction for Systematic Reviews in Medicine

    Sep 23, 2026Sai Karthik Kosuri, Ankita Shashikant Bhosale, Michael Glick +2Systematic ReviewExtraction

    Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH), Penn Dental Medicine, University of Pennsylvania · Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania

  11. ScholarStack: Layered Research Asset Orchestration and Cross-Task Reuse for Scientific Agents

    Sep 20, 2026ScholarSeed AI Team, Caoqinwei Gong, Xue Jiang +17Scholar Information DatabaseResearch Automation

    DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group

  12. Measuring the Creativity of Frontier LLMs in Automated Research

    Sep 12, 2026Yiheng Zhao, Mengzhuo Chen, Chengming Hu +3CreativityResearch Automation

    Concordia University, Montreal, Canada · Independent Researcher · Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada +1

  13. Autonomous Chemical Mechanistic Discovery through Agentic Reasoning and Validation

    Sep 12, 2026Dong Li, Sixuan Mi, Zihao Ye +10ReactionResearch Automation

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China. · Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. · School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. +4

  14. INDRA: A New AI Tool for Exploring Tobacco, Fossil Fuel, and Chemical Industry Archives

    Sep 11, 2026Daniel Akselrad, Robert N. ProctorGeneration ProvenanceResearch Automation

    Department of Epidemiology & Population Health, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA · Department of History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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

    Sep 11, 2026Ming Li, Dai Li, Xuying Ning +11Research AutomationAuto Research

    Meta · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  16. IdeaAMBIG: Benchmarking Implementation-Critical Gaps in Research-Idea Specifications

    Sep 9, 2026Yiling Ma, Yilun Zhao, Sihong Wu +2ReproducibilityResearch Automation

    Yale University · TCS Research

  17. AnalysisBank: An Expert Analysis Pattern Library for Financial Report Generation

    Sep 1, 2026Yajing Yang, Yunshan Ma, Kelvin J. L. Koa +1ReportInsights

    National University of Singapore · Singapore Management University · Asian Institute of Digital Finance

  18. RingMoClaw: An Experience-Inspired Multi-Agent Framework for Self-Evolving Research in Remote Sensing

    Sep 1, 2026Kaiyue Kang, Qixuan He, Peijin Wang +9Remote SensingClaw-Like Agent

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China +1

  19. PaperGym: Rubric-Centered Evolution for Research-Plan Generation

    Aug 31, 2026Yuhan Wang, Zhengxi Lu, Yuchen Yan +6Research AutomationRubrics

    Zhejiang University · Apple

  20. Learning to Evaluate Before Improving: Automatic Rubric Induction for Automatic Research Agents

    Aug 31, 2026Xuehai Wang, Haowei Qin, Tongxin Liu +6Research AutomationRubrics

    1Zhejiang University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · 3Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications +1

  21. Automated Researchers Can Mitigate Well-characterized Alignment Failures

    Aug 28, 2026Chen Yueh-Han, Jiaxin Wen, Jan Hendrik KirchnerArtificial Intelligence AlignmentResearch Automation

    1Anthropic Fellows Program · 2Anthropic · 3UC Berkeley

  22. AutoResearch: Insight In, Hallucination Out

    Aug 18, 2026Xiang Liu, Qumeng Sun, Bruno +3Research AutomationCode Generation

    Infinite Evolution Lab, EvoMap

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

    Aug 13, 2026Jiacheng Guo, Suozhi Huang, Yunlong Gao +5Algorithmic TradingRecursive Self-Improvement

    Princeton University · Ant Group · Stanford University

  24. ARAC: Benchmarking Auto-Research's Alignment and Completeness on End-to-End Researchs

    Aug 13, 2026Jiale Cui, Yueyao Yuan, Kaixi Zhong +3Research AutomationAuto Research

    School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University

  25. Tree-of-Ideas: Automated Research Ideation via Cross-Trajectory Reasoning over Scholarly Evolution

    Aug 11, 2026Xun Li, Yiying Yang, Pengtao Li +8Scientific IdeationResearch Automation

    Guangdong Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy (SZ) · University of Melbourne · University of Sydney +4

  26. Recovering Wasted Compute in Autoresearch Agents

    Aug 11, 2026Au Kwok Chun, Abhigyan Acherjee, Amrutha Rao +4Research AutomationSearch Algorithms

    Department of Computer Science, Columbia University · 2AI, Analytics and Future of Work Initiative, Georgetown University · Department of Applied Mathematics, Columbia University +3

  27. Agentic Auto-Research is Fuzz Testing

    Aug 10, 2026Yifeng He, Jicheng Wang, Yinzhe Zhao +2FuzzingResearch Automation

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

  28. Authoring and Management of Transparent Research Integrity Assessments of Randomised Clinical Trial Publications Using LLM-assisted Tools and Provenance Knowledge Graphs

    Aug 7, 2026Milan Markovic, Goutham Indukuri, Somayajulu Sripada +7Systematic ReviewResearch Automation

    Interdisciplinary Institute, University of Aberdeen, UK · Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen, UK · Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Indiana University, USA +3

  29. Research Assistant: AstraZeneca's Agentic System for R&D

    Aug 6, 2026Piotr Grabowski, Mohamed Alameen, Jorge Bretones +16Research AutomationBiomedical Text

    AstraZeneca, RDIT, Biological Insights Knowledge Graph

  30. AutoScientist-Quant: Self-Evolving Coding Agents for Automatic Research in Quantitative Investment

    Aug 5, 2026Zongqian Li, Yaoyiran Li, Yaohui Guo +3Algorithmic TradingResearch Automation

    1Google · University of Cambridge

  31. EviGraph: Evidence-Guided Autonomous Research Agents

    Aug 5, 2026Zhenjiang Ren, Ruiji Li, Xujing Zhang +3Research AutomationEvidence-Grounded Questions

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Hong Kong Baptist University +1

  32. Project2Task: Graph-Guided Project-Level Planning for Autonomous Research

    Aug 5, 2026Huirui Xu, Runtao Xu, Shuo Ren +1Research AutomationClassical Planning

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Future Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences +1

  33. MECA: A Mechanism-Centered Agent for Constructing Well-Specified and Valuable Mathematical Conjectures

    Jul 30, 2026Wentao Long, Yunfei Zhang, Chenyi Li +1Open ProblemsTheorem Proving

    Fudan University · Qingdao University · Peking University

  34. Evidence-Based Scientific Question Discovery: A Framework with Historical Backtesting

    Jul 29, 2026Hui MaoScientific DiscoveryEvidence-Grounded Questions

    Independent Researcher

  35. One Run Is Not an Idea: The Implementation Lottery in Automated Research

    Jul 29, 2026Jingjie Ning, Shanshan Zhong, Xiaochuan Li +2Research AutomationReproducibility

    School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

  36. Efficiency Matters in Autonomous Research

    Jul 27, 2026Haiqian Yang, Yuan CaoResearch AutomationSearch Algorithms

  37. The Half-Lives of Generative-AI Evidence: A 40-Record Audit, a Claim-Currency Framework, and a Reflexive Case of Frontier-Model-Assisted Research

    Jul 27, 2026Carlo IaconoJournalResearch Automation

    Charles Sturt University, Australia

  38. CausalSmith: A Formally Grounded, Self-Improving Agentic Framework for Automated Research in Causal Inference

    Jul 24, 2026Jiyuan Tan, Vasilis SyrgkanisCausal InferencesResearch Automation

  39. IDEAgent: Agentic Quality-Diversity Search for Research Idea Generation

    Jul 24, 2026Varun Gumma, Navonil Majumder, Soumitra Sinhahajari +1Scientific IdeationResearch Automation

    DeCLaRe Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  40. Auto Research for Materials: Auditable AI-Scientist Workflows with Held-Out Transfer

    Jul 19, 2026Jingjie Ning, Xiaochuan Li, Shanshan Zhong +2Research AutomationAuto Research

    School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University · 2DP Technology

  41. Confining Nondeterminism: AI-Driven Research Systems as DBMSs for Reliable, Non-Wasteful, Transparent, and Collaborative Research [Vision]

    Jul 11, 2026Kyoungmin Kim, Anastasia AilamakiResearch AutomationAgent Loop

    EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland

  42. ASMR: Agentic Schema Generation for Ship Maintenance Report Writing

    Jul 9, 2026Sohrab Namazi Nia, Amogh Dalal, Ning Sa +6ReportResearch Automation

    New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, New Jersey, USA · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York, USA · Boston Fusion Corporation Lexington, Massachusetts, USA

  43. ResearchStudio-Idea: An Evidence-Grounded Research-Ideation Skill Suite from ML Conference Outcomes

    Jul 5, 2026Qihao Zhao, Yangyu Huang, Yalun Dai +8Scientific IdeationResearch Automation

    1Nanyang Technological University · 2Microsoft Research · 3National University of Singapore +1

  44. VERITAS: Towards a General-Purpose Replication Tool for Scientific Research

    Jul 3, 2026Haokun Liu, Filbert Aurelian Tjiaranata, Chenhao TanReproducibilityResearch Automation

    University of Indonesia

  45. Grounded autonomous research: a fault-tolerant LLM pipeline from corpus to manuscript in frontier computational physics

    Jul 2, 2026Haonan HuangResearch AutomationReproducibility

    Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.

  46. Measuring the Gap Between Human and LLM Research Ideas

    Jul 1, 2026Ziyu Chen, Yilun Zhao, Arman CohanScientific IdeationResearch Automation

    University of Chicago · Yale University

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

    Jun 30, 2026Qiong Tang, Tianxiang Sun, Xiangkun Hu +54Research AutomationLanguage-Model Agents

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

    Jun 23, 2026Youran Sun, Xingyu Ren, Chugang Yi +4Research AutomationScalability

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

  49. PaperClaw: Harnessing Agents for Autonomous Research and Human-in-the-Loop Refinement

    Jun 21, 2026Weiwei Ye, Hangchen Liu, Dongyuan Li +1Research AutomationHuman-In-The-Loop

    The University of Tokyo

  50. Negative Knowledge as Failure-aware Shared Memory for AutoResearch

    Jun 19, 2026Hanchun WangResearch AutomationScientific Discovery

    Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

  51. AI Economist Agent: An Agentic Framework for Evidence-Based Economic and Financial Analysis with RAG, Knowledge Graphs, and Large Language Models

    Jun 18, 2026Masahiro KatoEconomiesData Science Agents

    The University of Tokyo

  52. ReproRepo: Scaling Reproducibility Audits with GitHub Repository Issues

    Jun 16, 2026Shanda Li, Qiuhong Anna Wei, Jingwu Tang +5ReproducibilityResearch Automation

    School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University · Datadog

  53. Thinking Like a Scientist? A Structural Study of LLM-Generated Research Methods

    Jun 15, 2026Francesca Carlon, Brecht Verbeken, Vincent Ginis +1MethodologyResearch Automation

    1Data Analytics Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 5, 1050 Brussels, Belgium · 2imec-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 9, 1050 Brussels, Belgium · School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA

  54. Automated reproducibility assessments in the social and behavioral sciences using large language models

    Jun 11, 2026Tobias Holtdirk, Pietro Marcolongo, Anna Steinberg Schulten +7ReproducibilityEffect Sizes

    1LMU Munich, Munich, Germany · 2Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany · University of Maryland, College Park, USA +1

  55. Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement

    Jun 10, 2026Jiajie Jin, Yuyang Hu, Kai Qiu +15Research AutomationHypothesis-Driven Model Expansion

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China · Microsoft Research

  56. Report on CHIIR 2026 Workshop on Generative AI and Academic Search (GAI&AS)

    Jun 8, 2026Yifan Liu, Jaime Arguello, Orland Hoeber +30Research AutomationScholar Information Database

    Klara · University of British Columbia · Canada +8

  57. AutoForest: Automatically Generating Forest Plots from Biomedical Studies with End-to-End Evidence Extraction and Synthesis

    Jun 1, 2026Massimiliano Pronesti, Angelo Miculescu, Mohsin Kapdi +8BiomedicalResearch Automation

    1IBM Research · 2Dublin City University · University of Oxford +2

  58. EvoGens: A Population-Based Heuristic Search Framework for Scientific Idea Generation

    May 29, 2026Xu Li, Hanzhe Tu, Xinyi Li +3Scientific IdeationEvolutionary Search

    Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu, China · Sichuan Police College, Luzhou, China

  59. Extending AI for Research to the Humanities: A Multi-Agent Framework for Evidence-Grounded Scholarship

    May 29, 2026Yating Pan, Jiajun Zhang, Jun Wang +1Research AutomationHuman Agency

    Department of Information Management, Peking University · Research Center for Digital Humanities, Peking University · Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University +1

  60. E3: Issue-Level Backtesting for Automated Research Critique

    May 26, 2026Yashwardhan Chaudhuri, Sanyam Jain, Paridhi MundraPeer ReviewResearch Automation