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  1. SwarmResearch: Orchestrating Coding Agents for Open-Ended Discovery

    Jul 2, 2026Yuvraj Virk, Zack Edds, Chunqiu Steven Xia +1Automated Algorithm DiscoveryLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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

    Jul 2, 2026Haonan HuangScientific DiscoveryAutonomous Research Agents

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

  3. Autonomous discovery of traffic laws with AI traffic scientists

    Jul 2, 2026Xingyuan Dai, Yue Liu, Xiaoyan Gong +9Intelligent Transportation SystemsAutonomous Scientific Discovery

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China. · School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China. · China Telecom Research Institute, Beijing, 102209, China. +2

  4. Auto-FL-Research: Agentic Search for Federated Learning Algorithms

    Jul 1, 2026Holger R. Roth, Ziyue Xu, Chester Chen +3Automated Algorithm DiscoveryAutonomous Research Agents

    NVIDIA, Santa Clara, USA

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

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

  6. 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.

  7. Clarus: Coordinating Autonomous Research Agents toward Web-Scale Scientific Collaboration

    Jun 29, 2026Zihan Guo, Zeyi Chen, Zhiyu Chen +15Multi-Agent OrchestrationMulti-Agent Collaboration

    Sun Yat-sen University · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory +4

  8. Optimizing Expert-Designed Crystal Graph Networks for Band-Gap Prediction with an Autonomous LLM Research Loop

    Jun 29, 2026Chenmu Zhang, Boris I. YakobsonGraph Neural NetworksLarge Language Model-Guided Optimization

    Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering Rice University Houston, TX 77005, USA

  9. Glite ARF: Verifier-Driven Research with Parallel LLM Coding Agents

    Jun 25, 2026Vassili Philippov, Pavel Katunin, Dmitry Andreev +2Multi-Agent CodingAutonomous Research Agents

    1Glite · School of Biosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

  10. Lacuna: A Research Map for Machine Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Martin Weiss, Miles Q. Li, Alejandro H. Artiles +4Information RetrievalLarge Language Model-Guided Scientific Discovery

    Tiptree Advanced Systems Corporation · Mila · Polytechnique Montreal +2

  11. Heuresis: Search Strategies for Autonomous AI Research Agents Across Quality, Diversity and Novelty

    Jun 23, 2026Antonis Antoniades, Deepak Nathani, Ritam Saha +6Novelty SearchAI Agent Evaluation

    University of California, Santa Barbara · Hexo AI

  12. SP-Mind: An Autonomous Reasoning Agent for Spatial Proteomics Analysis

    Jun 23, 2026Yucheng Yuan, Yuanfeng Ji, Zhongxiao Li +1AI Agent BenchmarksTool-Using Agents

    Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA · Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  13. 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

  14. Closed-loop Auto Research for Molecular Property Prediction: Discovering and Certifying Generalizable Improvements

    Jun 22, 2026Jingjie Ning, Xiaochuan Li, Ji Zeng +2Molecular Property PredictionAutomated Machine Learning

    School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. · DP Technology, Beijing, China.

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

    Jun 21, 2026Weiwei Ye, Hangchen Liu, Dongyuan Li +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsAI Agents for Scientific Discovery

    The University of Tokyo

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

    Jun 19, 2026Hanchun WangAI-Assisted Scientific ResearchMemory-Augmented Agents

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

  17. 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

  18. Making AI Scientists Auditable from Evidence to Claim

    Jun 17, 2026Zijian Wang, Hanqi Li, Ziyue Yang +17Data ProvenanceScientific Reproducibility

    X-LANCE Lab, School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Suzhou Laboratory, Suzhou, China · Shanghai Innovation Institution, Shanghai, China +1

  19. PseudoBench: Measuring How Agentic Auto-Research Fuels Pseudoscience

    Jun 16, 2026Xinyang Liao, Lingyu Li, Huacan Liu +5AI-Assisted Scientific ResearchAI Agent Safety Benchmarks

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  20. Democratizing and accelerating AI-driven pathology research through agentic intelligence

    Jun 12, 2026Jiabo Ma, Cheng Jin, Yihui Wang +19Computational PathologyAgentic Workflows

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China · Department of Pathology, Nanfang Hospital, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China · Guangdong Province Key Laboratory of Molecular Tumor Pathology, Guangzhou, China +9

  21. EurekAgent: Agent Environment Engineering is All You Need For Autonomous Scientific Discovery

    Jun 11, 2026Amy Xin, Jiening Siow, Junjie Wang +5Autonomous Scientific DiscoveryAutonomous Research Agents

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University · School of Information, Renmin University of China

  22. Arbor: Tree Search as a Cognition Layer for Autonomous Agents

    Jun 10, 2026Neha Prakriya, Chaojun Hou, Zheng Gong +5LLM Inference EfficiencyMulti-Agent System Optimization

    Training and Inference Optimization Team AMD

  23. CMIP-Forge: An Agentic System that Retrieves, Computes, and Self-Reviews Climate Science

    Jun 10, 2026Dmitrii Pantiukhin, Boris Shapkin, Ivan Kuznetsov +2Climate ScienceClimate Modeling

    Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, Germany

  24. Toward Generalist Autonomous Research via Hypothesis-Tree Refinement

    Jun 10, 2026Jiajie Jin, Yuyang Hu, Kai Qiu +15Long-Horizon LLM AgentsAutonomous Experimentation

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

  25. Search Discipline for Long-Horizon Research Agents

    Jun 9, 2026Adithya Srinivasan, Devesh ParagiriAI-Assisted Scientific ResearchLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    Department of Computer Science · North Carolina State University · University of Maryland

  26. What Fits (Into Few Tokens) Doesn't Overfit: Compression and Generalization in ML Research Agents

    Jun 9, 2026Martin Andres Bertran, Aaron Roth, Zhiwei Steven WuMinimum Description LengthBenchmark Contamination

    Amazon Responsible AI · University of Pennsylvania · Carnegie Mellon University

  27. Moonshine: An Autonomous Mathematical Research Agent Centered on Conjecture Generation

    Jun 9, 2026Xiaoyang Chen, Xiang JiangAutonomous Research Agents

    School of Mathematical Science, Tongji University · Moonshine Technology

  28. SearchSwarm: Towards Delegation Intelligence in Agentic LLMs for Long-Horizon Deep Research

    Jun 8, 2026Pu Ning, Quan Chen, Kun Tao +7Multi-Agent LLM SystemsLLM Agent Orchestration

    Tsinghua University · Peking University · Ant Group +1

  29. MASS: Deep Research for Social Sciences with Memory-Augmented Social Simulation

    Jun 8, 2026Yongrui Liu, Deyi XiongHuman Behavior SimulationLarge Language Model-Based Social Simulation

    The International Joint Institute of Tianjin University, Fuzhou, Tianjin University, China · TJUNLP Lab, School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, China

  30. SkillHone: A Harness for Continual Agent Skill Evolution Through Persistent Decision History

    Jun 7, 2026Zhiwei Li, Yong HuContinual Learning for LLM AgentsLLM Agent Skill Learning

    WeChat AI, Tencent Inc., China · WeChat, Tencent Inc., China